page_title: Pineapple Express
section_title: Southern California, 2005
hierarchical_section_title: Pineapple Express / Extreme cases / Southern California, 2005
caption_attribution_description: English: Tourist area around Badwater Basin, 282 feet below sea level, flooded by ephemeral Lake Badwater, Death Valley National Park, California. Panamint Range and Telescope Peak in the background.
context_page_description: Pineapple Express is a non-technical term for a meteorological phenomenon characterized by a strong and persistent flow of moisture and associated with heavy precipitation from the waters adjacent to the Hawaiian Islands and extending to any location along the Pacific coast of North America. A Pineapple Express is an example of an atmospheric river, which is a more general term for such narrow corridors of enhanced water vapor transport at mid-latitudes around the world.
context_section_description: A Pineapple Express related storm battered Southern California from January 7 through January 11, 2005.  This storm was the largest to hit Southern California since the storms that hit during the 1997–98 El Niño event.  The storm caused mud slides and flooding, with one desert location just north of Morongo Valley receiving about 9 inches (230 mm) of rain, and some locations on south and southwest-facing mountain slopes receiving spectacular totals: San Marcos Pass, in Santa Barbara County, received 24.57 inches (624 mm), and Opids Camp (AKA Camp Hi-Hill) in the San Gabriel Mountains of Los Angeles County was deluged with 31.61 inches (80.3 cm) of rain in the five-day period. In some areas the storm was followed by over a month of near-continuous rain.
caption: Unusually high precipitation caused an ephemeral lake to occur in the Badwater Basin of Death Valley National Park, 2005.
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