Huge extratropical storm W of California

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I'm posting this here and not in Talkin' Tropics because this'll probably have heavy rain implications for the West Coast.

Someone on a LiveJournal community pointed this out to me this morning. Early this morning, there was an interesting-looking warm-core system west of California, that appeared to have subtropical characteristics:



However, when I went to check it a few hours later, it had been sheared apart, but the extratropical system it's being absorbed into is absolutely massive:



Loop: http://www.ssd.noaa.gov/goes/west/nepac/loop-avn.html