California and the Southwest United States are just coming off an exciting few days of weather. Los Angeles faced hundreds of mudslides , ski resorts got bombarded with snow, and conditions were, well, generally soggy.
According to the National Weather Service Climate Prediction Center, inhabitants of California and the Southwest United States might have to do it all over again.
“There is an increased potential for heavy rain, high winds, and flooding for California and Arizona, along with heavy snow at higher elevations, Friday-Wednesday, February 16-21,” the report from the NWS reads.
The degree of risk isn’t 100%. Instead, the NWS predicts a 60% chance that California’s mountains will see heavy snow (with “hazardous precipitation” at lower elevations) between February 17th and February 19th.
A different, longer window—February 16th through the 21st—holds a 40% to 60% chance that California and Arizona will see “precipitation and high elevation snow.”
The previous round of precipitation across the Southwest United States and California treated ski resorts swimmingly. Mammoth Mountain, California, picked up 4.5 feet to over 5 feet during the storm, and Taos Ski Valley, New Mexico, walked away nearly 4 feet of snow. Hallelujah.