A warm, wet atmospheric river storm is expected to sweep through Modesto this week, according to the National Weather Service.
The storm comes shortly after Modesto is forecast to see record high heat Monday afternoon.
According to the National Weather Service’s Climate Prediction Center, the atmospheric river is expected to soak California with above-normal amounts of precipitation starting this week, The Sacramento Bee reported.
An atmospheric river is an area in the atmosphere that carries water vapors outside of the tropics, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said. When these so-called “rivers in the sky” make landfall, they drop rain and snow.
“When we compare it to the last storm Jan. 19 through 21, (this week’s storm) looks like similar rain and snow amounts and impacts,” Courtney Carpenter, National Weather Service warning coordination meteorologist, said Monday in a video briefing.
Here’s how the storm will impact the region, and what the weather will be like for the next week.