California braces for heavy rain and snow systems into the workweek
Multiple storm systems will move through the West Coast this weekend and into the beginning of the workweek, pummeling California with both rain and snow.
Multiple storm systems will move through the West Coast this weekend and into the beginning of the workweek, pummeling California with both rain and snow.
Currently, 26 million people across the state are under flood alerts, including in Los Angeles, Fresno, Sacramento and San Francisco.
The atmospheric river-fueled storms in the West are expected to bring flooding and damaging winds across the region, as well as feet of snow in the mountains.
Late Sunday into Monday is when rainfall rates will peak at 0.5-1 inches per hour. As Monday continues, Californians can expect torrential rain, mountain snow and damaging wind gusts that will continue throughout most of the day before moving east into the Rockies by Tuesday.
The first of the storms already hit the Bay Area and points south on Saturday, with the National Weather Service describing its output mainly as “light rain” and its lifespan as “weakening,” according to a forecast discussion on Saturday.
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