SAN JOSE, Calif. — Across the San Francisco Bay Area, public safety workers and weather experts figured there wasn’t much they hadn’t seen during this relentless winter of atmospheric rivers, a freezing Alaskan Gulf jet stream, snow and nearly 100 mph winds.
But after Tuesday’s ferocious storm, which surprised forecasters and set new records, they had a change of heart.
“I’m a scientist. I tend to not be a fan of flamboyant adjectives,” National Weather Service meteorologist Warren Blier said Wednesday. “But after the winter we’ve had, to get something like yesterday, I thought it was extraordinary.”
