California’s Wet Pattern Returns; Mountain Snow to Add to Impressive Western Snowpack

California will be soaked with more rain and heavy mountain snow after a more than two-week respite from one of the wettest winters on record in the Golden State. A pattern change in the upper atmosphere this week will bring a return to conditions that have been more familiar this winter, compared to the weather so far in March. An upper-level ridge of high pressure that was responsible for the mainly dry and warm conditions in the West has now moved east.