The weather impacts are associated with an atmospheric river that arrived over the weekend. An NWS weather map shows all alerts issued in the Northwestern U.S. for an ongoing atmospheric river.

The map shows Mesopotamia surrounded by a double ring — which the ancient scribe labeled the “bitter river,” a river that created the borders around the Babylonians’ known world.

and the map itself seems to give an aerial view of Mesopotamia. On the tablet, Mesopotamia is surrounded by a double circle ...