Pineapple Express
Regional
- Meaning
- Warm tropical atmospheric river from near Hawaii.
- Type
- Regionalism
- Used in
- Seattle, Pacific Northwest, California, Oregon, Washington
What does “Pineapple Express” mean
An atmospheric river that funnels warm, soaking moisture from near Hawaii into the West Coast. When one parks over Northern California or the Pacific Northwest, it can dump a year's worth of rain in days, melt mountain snowpack overnight, and trigger massive mudslides. The name has been on TV forecasts in Seattle and the Bay Area since the 1990s.
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