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Flood — Madera, CA

Nov 30, 2012

The stable weather pattern continued through November 27th. The first in a series of east-Pacific storms approached the northern part of the central California interior that evening. These storms tapped into a long fetch of subtropical moisture, with resulting high snow levels through the first day of December.||While the first storm brought between a tenth and a quarter inch of rain to much of the central and southern San Joaquin Valley���north of Bakersfield���it was the second sto

Source: NOAA National Weather Service Storm Events Database (event 420208). Narrative written by NWS staff at the time of the event.

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