Heavy rain and snowfall in California and this is just beginning
2023.01.08 04:50
Heavy rain and snowfall in California and this is just beginning
Budrigannews.com – Even though the state was being battered by storms this weekend, forecasters stated that yet another “atmospheric river” of dense, moist tropical air will slam into California on Monday with rain and mountain snow. This will be the fifth weather phenomenon since Christmas.
According to David Roth, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service’s Weather Prediction Center, the current round of severe weather with gale-force winds began in the northwest corner of California late on Friday, moved southward into the San Francisco Bay Area and central coast on Saturday afternoon, and will continue into Sunday.
Roth continued, “But, oh no, this is not over.”
Los Angeles, Sacramento, the San Francisco Bay Area, and Oregon will all be impacted by yet another storm system that will arrive on Monday and last at least through the middle of next week.
“We’re talking 3-to-6 inches (7.5 cm-15 cm) of rain, several feet of snow in the mountains… because the area is so saturated we could see flash floods, mudslides, rockslides, and avalanches,” Roth stated. “It’s going to get worse Monday.”
Forecasters say that rock and mudslides are especially likely to occur in canyons and hillsides that have already been cleared of vegetation by previous wildfires.
In higher elevations of the Sierras, where accumulations of a foot to 18 inches (30 cm to 46 cm) or more were measured earlier this week, snow accumulations of up to 2 feet (60 cm) were anticipated to fall by the end of Sunday in addition to heavy rain.
According to the tracking website Poweroutages.us, tens of thousands of homes and businesses have lost power in recent days, and more than 34,000 remain without power on Saturday afternoon, primarily in Mendocino County in northern California.
Since the beginning of the week, it was the third and strongest atmospheric river to hit California.
Howling winds ripped down power lines, obstructing roads across the region, and uprooted trees that were already weak from the prolonged drought and poorly rooted in rain-soaked soil.
Saturday’s weather alert from the National Weather Service warned that a series of heavy rainstorms since the end of December could cause flooding in a lot of Central California and raise river levels to record highs.
Since New Year’s Eve, at least six people have died as a result of the severe weather, including a toddler who was killed when a fallen redwood tree crushed a mobile home in northern California.
From December 26 through January, the flurry of storms drenched downtown San Francisco with 10.3 inches (26 cm) of rain. 4, the wettest 10-day period since 1871 that has been recorded there, according to the NWS.
Roth stated that the storm patterns would continue until the middle of January and that “This isn’t even close to being over.”
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