rivals like a hurricane strength. let s take a look and see what we will deal with. this will be coming into the pacific northwest. the storm we re looking at now is just a regular storm this is the one that s a precursor to the big event this weekend. here is the rainfall forecast. and we ve been begging for rain because of this epic decade long drought in the west. we re going to get a good chunk of it in the next seven days. that s up to 5 to 7 inches. everywhere you see the brown and red shading, just cold enough for one to two feet of snow in areas of the central sierra mountain chain, so mammoth lakes up to tahoe, one to two feet of snow. build the snowpack up, give us this rain for the reservoirs, we don t want to have significant debris flows and flash flooding. remember all those fires we talked about earlier this year is where we re going to be vulnerable to flooding and debris and mud flows. a dangerous day with a storm for the west coast standards that will rival a hurrican