California storms: Atmospheric river threatens central inland areas - The Washington Post

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Storm-battered California and parts of Nevada received respective inches of snowfall during Martin Luther King Jr. weekend. (Video: The Washington Post)

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The atmospheric stream that brought pounding rains and dense snowfall implicit parts of California this period continued to drench Southern and Central California connected Monday, prompting a caller circular of flood advisories, dense snowfall and hazardous roadworthy conditions arsenic the upwind strategy moved eastward.

The coastal portion astir the Bay Area faced flood watches and warnings arsenic swollen waterways spilled onto roads and disrupted question aboriginal Monday. Fire officials warned residents of the Berkeley Hills vicinity successful Berkeley to beryllium prepared to evacuate aft mudslides reportedly forced a fewer residents to fly aboriginal Monday. Farther south, successful San Diego County, residents awoke aft a nighttime of almighty storms downed trees and flooded roads. From the Sierra Nevada to the Lake Tahoe region, wintertime tempest warnings and watches were expected to transportation an further 4 to 8 inches of snowfall successful the foothills, according to the National Weather Service.

Here’s what other you request to know

  • Another tempest strategy that is forecast to deed the authorities aboriginal this week “barely qualifies” arsenic an atmospheric river, according to the Department of Water Resources, which fits the inclination of the systems weakening implicit the past respective days.
  • These storms, which killed astatine slightest 19 people, person been deadlier than immoderate California wildfire since 2018.

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