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A beardown upwind strategy that passed done Northern California connected Wednesday nighttime brought unsafe winds that led to downed trees and powerfulness outages crossed the state.Thursday inactive has a accidental of showers earlier clearing retired successful the evening. Friday is expected to enactment mostly dry, with different strategy moving successful this weekend. | RELATED | Northern California forecast: Chance for much rainfall Thursday, with interruption connected Friday| RELATED | 2023 Northern California tempest resources: How to motion up for region exigency alerts, study outagesFind the latest forecast and tempest updates from crossed the portion below:Wind gusts Wednesday nighttime topped 50 mph successful immoderate areas.Flooding issues from different parts of the authorities were not an contented successful our sum area. Gov. Gavin Newsom connected Wednesday had declared a authorities of exigency up of the storm, Cal OES Director Nancy Ward announced. Officials warned successful a Wednesday property league that wide flooding was expected successful coastal communities and that the agrarian levee strategy was the "most vulnerable" infrastructure successful the state.The latest terrible upwind arrives arsenic the portion continues to woody with the aftermath of the New Year’s Eve tempest that brought dense rainfall and beardown winds. The play tempest caused wide flooding crossed Northern California, knocked retired powerfulness for thousands and stranded dozens connected flooded roadways. A woman's assemblage was discovered Wednesday day adjacent a conveyance that was being towed distant from floodwaters adjacent Dillard Road eastbound of Highway 99. The Sacramento County coroner identified her arsenic Mei Keng Lam, 57, of San Leandro. A 3rd assemblage was besides recovered astir a half-hour thrust distant from the determination of the archetypal 2 bodies.On Sunday, authorities discovered a antheral wrong a submerged conveyance who besides died successful that aforesaid area.Residents of Point Pleasant, Glanville Tract and Franklin Pond were ordered to evacuate owed to flooding connected Sunday. Evacuation orders stay successful place. A spokesperson with SMUD told KCRA 3 that the inferior remained successful an all-hands-on-deck presumption for Wednesday’s storm. As of Thursday morning, 732 SMUD customers were impacted by outages. | MORE | Find SMUD’s outage representation hereThe play tempest besides caused the Cosumnes River to scope its highest level successful past and brought flooding to Wilton and parts of southbound Sacramento County. The region aboriginal confirmed Sunday that determination had been a treble levee breach. County officials person issued a section authorities of exigency and said they volition beryllium collecting harm estimates. Spokesperson Kim Nava said the proclamation volition springiness the county's manager of exigency services the authorization to afloat usage each region resources and unit to assistance with the emergency.They could aboriginal question reimbursement if a authorities oregon national exigency proclamation is issued.LATEST FORECASTMeteorologist Tamara Berg says Northern California volition inactive person the accidental for a ablution and possibly adjacent immoderate dependable rainfall Thursday afternoon. | MORE | Northern California forecast: Chance for much rainfall Thursday, with interruption connected FridayLight to mean rainfall whitethorn besides determination done the country astir 11 a.m., lingering into the aboriginal afternoon. Around 5 p.m., skies volition commencement to wide retired crossed the Valley floor. Berg says Friday volition springiness Northern California a accidental to adust retired crossed the area.“And we decidedly request it due to the fact that Saturday and Sunday we're getting into much rainfall. Saturday is an interaction time for much rain, much wind, particularly queuing up for the evening,” she said.HERE ARE THE LATEST UPDATES:Thursday Updates:8:30 a.m.: Here's an update connected reservoir levels.7:44 a.m.: Elk Grove volition proceed to connection sandbags to its residents contiguous from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.7:40 a.m.: The metropolis of Folsom is informing of localized flooding passim the area.6:40 a.m.: Corral Hollow is closed aft the I-580 ramps successful Tracy owed to a mudslide successful the canyon.6:18 a.m.: Big rigs are astatine maximum restrictions for concatenation controls successful the Sierra, CHP Truckee says.6:10 a.m.: Auburn constabulary pass of debris successful the roadway from the storm.5:45 a.m.: Caltrans says that southbound postulation connected Highway 99 is nary longer reduced to 1 lane astatine Sheldon Road successful Elk Grove. 5:37 a.m.: County officers successful South Lake Tahoe are closed today, El Dorado County officials say.Wednesday Updates:10:21 p.m.: Chain controls are successful effect connected Highway 50 from Twin Bridges to Meyers.9:46 p.m.: Chain controls are successful effect connected Interstate 80 from Donner Lake Road to Kingvale.9:42 p.m.: Tree limbs fell connected telephone poles on Meiss Road adjacent the Sloughhouse country of Sacramento County.9:31 p.m.: Lincoln had the highest upwind gust truthful acold successful our area. 9:20 p.m.: Northern California saw dozens of h2o rescues implicit the weekend. Cal OES is acceptable for much rescues if needed with a radical of Sacramento firefighters trained successful h2o rescues. KCRA 3's Jason Marks reports successful the video below. 9:10 p.m.: One of the victims of the New Year's Eve tempest has been identified by the Sacramento County coroner arsenic 57-year-old Mei Keng Lam, from San Leandro. Learn more. 9:08 p.m.: Here's a look astatine wherever lightning has been spotted lately and different tempest updates. 8:22 p.m.: Chief Meteorologist Mark Finan is talking astir the tempest connected Facebook live.8:11 p.m.: KCRA 3 Reporter Melanie Wingo spotted a downed histrion disconnected Highway 16 successful the Sloughhouse country of Sacramento County. It is not blocking traffic.7:45 p.m.: Thunder and lightning are moving done Calaveras County, and thunder is showing up connected the unrecorded radar adjacent Cameron Park.7:41 p.m.: KCRA 3 Reporter Orko Manna is successful Grass Valley, wherever it is bedewed and windy.7:28 p.m.: Wind gusts person topped 50 mph successful immoderate areas. 7 p.m.: KCRA 3 Chief Meteorologist Mark Finan goes implicit the upwind forecast for the coming days. Watch successful the video below.6:40 p.m.: There are astir 140,000 customers crossed the authorities without power. Most of them are on the coast. In San Joaquin County, determination are astir 3,800 customers without power.Track unrecorded outages here.6:39 p.m.: The California Highway Patrol is reporting a histrion down, blocking a lane connected a unsighted curve on the 3300 artifact of Appian Way successful El Dorado Hills.6:15 p.m.: KCRA 3 Chief Meteorologist Mark Finan releases the strongest winds recorded truthful acold tonight.6 p.m.: In the Clarksburg-Walnut Grove area, galore of the 1,500 PG&E customers without energy went connected time 4 without powerfulness precocious Wednesday evening. The country is 1 of the hardest deed by outages aft the New Year's Eve tempest that deed Northern California.PG&E said it requested assistance from crews successful Southern California Edison and West Coast Utilities to assistance with powerfulness restoration though crews struggled with entree to flooded areas and downed powerfulness lines and trees.The energy institution besides gave impermanent generators truthful that the h2o territory could alleviate flooding.Tom Lovering, who has lived successful his Clarksburg location for 50 years, is 1 of the hundreds of residents successful the country impacted by the powerfulness outage."We person a tiny generator that keeps the refrigerator happy. Our biggest occupation is that we person good water, and we don't person immoderate h2o pressure. We ran retired of h2o connected the 2nd day," Lovering said.Others similar Courtney Pitcher, who works astatine Husick's Taphouse, said that they've had to unopen down their full operations and person mislaid a bully chunk of their product."The biggest situation that we person is refrigeration, but we can't flush the toilets," Pitcher said.PG&E is mounting up connected Thursday astatine the Clarksburg Fire Protection District occurrence presumption astatine 52902 Clarksburg Road to reply lawsuit questions astir their outage concern from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. The inferior volition besides bring a charging presumption truthful that residents tin complaint tiny electronics specified arsenic phones, tablets and laptops. 5:54 p.m.: Caltrans says a downed histrion connected eastbound Highway 50 astatine Bradshaw Road is blocking lanes 2-4.5:46 p.m.: The California Highway Patrol is reporting a histrion down connected Horshoe Bar Road successful the Loomis country of Placer County.5:36 p.m.: Comcast confirmed connected Wednesday an outage for Sacramento country Xfinity customers who person been without work for days since the New Year’s Eve tempest and warned that tonight's tempest could origin much disruptions.The cablegram and net elephantine blamed the caller outage successful portion connected harm astatine its works aft trees toppled into powerlines utilized by 1 of its plants. 5:35 p.m.: The Sacramento County Sheriff's Office said a 3rd assemblage was recovered wrong a submerged conveyance astatine New Hope Road westbound of Orr Road. This is westbound of the Galt area.Days ago, the assemblage of a antheral was recovered adjacent Dillard Road eastbound of Highway 99. The assemblage of a pistillate was besides recovered successful this country Wednesday morning. The 3rd assemblage was recovered astir a half-hour thrust away. The identities of these 3 person not been released arsenic of Wednesday evening.5:24 p.m.: Wind gusts of 40 mph were recorded successful Sacramento, according to KCRA 3 Chief Meteorologist Mark Finan. 5:22 p.m.: The El Dorado County Sheriff's Office is informing residents who unrecorded adjacent oregon are traveling by the Caldor and Mosquito occurrence pain scars of imaginable mudslides and debris flows.The Mosquito Fire pain scar country includes the properties northbound of Volcanoville Road into the Middle Fork of the American River Canyon, which borders Placer County.The Caldor Fire pain scar includes the municipality of Grizzly Flats, Mormon Emigrant Trail, Highway 50 Corridor and Christmas Valley successful the South Lake Tahoe basin.5:17 p.m.: Winds are picking up successful Sacramento, arsenic video by KCRA 3 Reporter Orko Manna shows.5:15 p.m.: Power was restored to astir each 11,000 SMUD customers successful the Florin country minutes aft the outage was reported astatine 5:05 p.m.Outages are expected to popular up and beryllium resolved continually amid stormy upwind tonight.Track outages here.5:08 p.m.: SMUD customers successful the Oak Park vicinity of Sacramento had their powerfulness restored. Meanwhile, an outage successful Florin adjacent Cosumnes River Boulevard and Bruceville Road is affecting astir 11,000 customers.That outage was reported astatine 5:05 p.m. There is nary estimated clip of restoration.Outages are expected to popular up continually amid stormy upwind tonight.Track outages here.4:45 p.m.: Yolo County issued a section exigency proclamation owed to windy and rainy conditions. The proclamation allows the region to acceptable immoderate rules oregon mandates deemed indispensable for nationalist safety."The severity of the wintertime tempest successful Yolo County highlights the request to instrumentality precautions to guarantee the information and well-being of Yolo County residents," said Oscar Villegas, the seat of the Yolo County Board of Supervisors, successful an email.4:40 p.m.: KCRA 3 Chief Meteorologist Mark Finan goes implicit the forecast for contiguous and the adjacent fewer days. Watch successful the video below. 4:30 p.m.: The National Weather Service tweeted that the Sacramento International Airport reported 46 mph upwind gusts astatine 3:13 p.m.4:26 p.m.: Here's an update connected the tempest timing connected the Bay Area.4:21 p.m.: The Sacramento Municipal Utility District, oregon SMUD, is reporting astir 3,800 customers without powerfulness successful the Oak Park vicinity adjacent Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard and 12th Avenue.There is nary estimated clip of restoration.Check outages here.4:20 p.m.: Water rescue crews from Bakersfield are stationed successful El Dorado Hills to assistance with immoderate imaginable flooding tonight.2:35 p.m.: Here's wherever to get a statewide look astatine powerfulness outages successful California. 2:31 p.m.: Some counties successful Northern California person closed their parks due to the fact that they're disquieted astir falling trees. Here's different reminder from Sac County. 1:49 p.m.: Here is however to motion up for region exigency alerts.1:34 p.m.: Officials person confirmed a 2nd decease of idiosyncratic adjacent Highway 99 aft the New Year's Eve flooding. A woman's assemblage was recovered contiguous astir 10 a.m. adjacent Dillard Road, CHP confirmed to KCRA 3. 1:28 p.m.: KCRA 3 has learned determination are nary plans to cancel tonight's Kings crippled astatine Golden 1 Center owed to the storm. 12:25 p.m.: Watch the afloat property league organized by Cal OES successful the video beneath wherever officials outlined the threats from terrible upwind crossed the state. 12:03 p.m.: CHP says that concatenation controls person been lifted connected I-80 implicit Donner Summit but question is discouraged, particularly aboriginal tonight. 11:33 a.m.: Karla Nemeth, the Department of Water Resources manager for California, says agrarian levees are the astir susceptible infrastructure successful the state. "It's precise casual for smaller communities to get overwhelmed," she said. She called for radical to enactment disconnected the roads and said that "high upwind events make debris that tin exacerbate flooding." 11:24 a.m.: Here are much updates from the briefing truthful acold astir the storm. 11:09 a.m.: Gov. Gavin Newsom has declared a authorities of exigency successful beforehand of the storm, Cal OES Director Nancy Ward conscionable announced.Ward called for radical to enactment informed by signing up for region exigency alerts and to cheque connected household members and neighbors."Always travel the absorption of section authorities," she said. "If you are told to evacuate, delight bash so." 10:49 a.m.: Capt. Keith Wade with the Sacramento Fire Department joined KCRA 3 connected Wednesday greeting to explicate the quality betwixt erstwhile radical should telephone 311 versus 911. Downed trees successful a roadway oregon flooding connected roads is simply a 311 call, helium said. It shouldn’t beryllium a 911 telephone unless the histrion has crashed into a location oregon determination is simply a downed powerline. Wade besides urged radical not to thrust done h2o that is rushing crossed streets. It lone takes a ft of h2o to render a sedan incapable, helium said. “Use immoderate communal consciousness today,” helium said.7:42 a.m.: NWS Sacramento encourages those who indispensable question to bash truthful earlier dark.7:22 a.m.: SMUD advises that if a tempest knocks down a powerfulness line, presume it is energized and telephone SMUD oregon 911 immediately. 6:37 a.m.: The National Weather Service successful Reno says that snowfall levels volition beryllium rising aboriginal contiguous and past falling again overnight. Tuesday Updates:11:12 p.m.: The metropolis of Sacramento is asking radical to telephone 311 if they spot thoroughfare flooding, postulation lights that aren't working, oregon downed trees, KCRA 3's Melanie Wingo reports. 10:20 p.m.: PG&E and SMUD some expect much powerfulness outages time and are sharing tempest information tips. They include: Never interaction downed wiresUse generators safely. PG&E recommends they are installed by a licensed electrician and successful a well-ventilated area.Use flashlights, not candlesHave a backup phoneHave caller drinking h2o and iceTurn disconnected appliancesPrepare an exigency kit, including a portable compartment telephone charger, flashlight, caller drinking water, other batteries, a manual tin opener and a battery-operated radio.| Video beneath | PG&E addresses customers' agelong waits for powerfulness restoration successful San Joaquin County8:51 p.m.: KCRA 3's Josie Heart spoke to a household that faced days stuck wrong their location successful Galt aft a histrion knocked down a powerfulness rod adjacent to their property. KCRA 3's Michelle Bandur spoke to neighbors successful Sacramento's Swanston Estates vicinity wherever a monolithic conifer histrion fell but avoided powerlines. 7:42 p.m.: Here's an update from the Sacramento Fire Department. 7:16 p.m.: SMUD says it has restored powerfulness to much than 99% of customers whose lights went retired successful the New Year's Eve storm. The tempest caused much than 120 poles to beryllium blown down and uprooted astatine slightest 115 trees. SMUD besides warned that Wednesday's tempest is expected to "be worse" with "multiple hours of precocious winds and gusts exceeding 50mph." "The crushed is present saturated from aggregate days of dense rains and much downed trees and poles are likely," SMUD said. 5:26 p.m.: San Joaquin County says it volition adjacent each regional, assemblage and vicinity parks connected Wednesday successful beforehand of the storm. The closure could past done Thursday oregon potentially, Friday, too. The region said the Micke Grove Zoo and Micke Grove Regional Park had "significant flooding and upwind damage" and volition stay closed done Sunday. 5:13 p.m.: There are inactive much than 1,000 SMUD customers without power. 5:04 p.m.: The National Weather Service says upland question is "highly discouraged" tomorrow.4:55 p.m.: KCRA 3's Melanie Wingo reports that truthful acold the metropolis of Sacramento has received 200 calls astir downed trees oregon limbs. The metropolis expects to proceed to beryllium engaged done this week with reports into 311.4:16 p.m.: Stockton Unified School District says families should "use caution and let other clip portion traveling to school" connected Wednesday. 4:14 p.m.: Sacramento County is besides closing each parks owed to histrion hazards. Read more. 1:01 p.m.: All parks successful Stockton are closed owed to histrion hazards from the play tempest and forecast precocious winds Wednesday.12:42 p.m.: Chain controls person been lifted connected I-80 implicit Donner Summit, but CHP is informing of the upcoming system.7:08 a.m.: Chain controls are successful spot successful the Sierra, according to CHP TruckeeDownload our app for the latestHere is wherever you tin download our app for the latest upwind alerts.Follow our KCRA upwind squad connected societal mediaChief Meteorologist Mark Finan connected Facebook and TwitterMeteorologist Tamara Berg connected Facebook and TwitterMeteorologist Eileen Javora connected FacebookMeteorologist Dirk Verdoorn connected FacebookMeteorologist/Climate Reporter Heather Waldman connected Facebook and TwitterWatch our forecasts connected TV oregon onlineHere's wherever to find our latest video forecast. You tin besides ticker a livestream of our latest newscast here. The banner connected our website turns reddish erstwhile we're live.We're besides streaming connected the Very Local app for Roku, Apple TV oregon Amazon Fire TV.Track Northern California Doppler radar here(App users, click present to spot our interactive radar map.)Track real-time postulation updates here(App users, click present to spot our interactive postulation map.)

A beardown upwind strategy that passed done Northern California connected Wednesday nighttime brought unsafe winds that led to downed trees and powerfulness outages crossed the state.

Thursday inactive has a accidental of showers earlier clearing retired successful the evening. Friday is expected to enactment mostly dry, with different strategy moving successful this weekend.

Find the latest forecast and tempest updates from crossed the portion below:

Wind gusts Wednesday nighttime topped 50 mph successful immoderate areas.

Flooding issues from other parts of the state were not an contented successful our sum area.

Gov. Gavin Newsom connected Wednesday had declared a authorities of exigency up of the storm, Cal OES Director Nancy Ward announced. Officials warned successful a Wednesday property league that wide flooding was expected successful coastal communities and that the agrarian levee strategy was the "most vulnerable" infrastructure successful the state.

The latest terrible upwind arrives arsenic the portion continues to woody with the aftermath of the New Year’s Eve tempest that brought dense rainfall and beardown winds.

The play tempest caused widespread flooding crossed Northern California, knocked retired powerfulness for thousands and stranded dozens connected flooded roadways.

A woman's assemblage was discovered Wednesday day adjacent a conveyance that was being towed distant from floodwaters adjacent Dillard Road eastbound of Highway 99. The Sacramento County coroner identified her arsenic Mei Keng Lam, 57, of San Leandro. A 3rd assemblage was besides recovered astir a half-hour thrust distant from the determination of the archetypal 2 bodies.

On Sunday, authorities discovered a man wrong a submerged conveyance who besides died successful that aforesaid area.

Residents of Point Pleasant, Glanville Tract and Franklin Pond were ordered to evacuate owed to flooding connected Sunday. Evacuation orders stay successful place.

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Point Pleasant is present nether an evacuation order. Get retired earlier sunset truthful you aren’t trying to thrust successful the dark. Stay safe! https://t.co/SkWsCjojXs

— Sacramento County (@SacCountyCA) January 1, 2023

A spokesperson with SMUD told KCRA 3 that the utility remained successful an all-hands-on-deck position for Wednesday’s storm.

As of Thursday morning, 732 SMUD customers were impacted by outages.

| MORE | Find SMUD’s outage representation here

The play tempest besides caused the Cosumnes River to scope its highest level successful past and brought flooding to Wilton and parts of southbound Sacramento County. The region aboriginal confirmed Sunday that determination had been a double levee breach.

County officials person issued a section authorities of exigency and said they volition beryllium collecting harm estimates. Spokesperson Kim Nava said the proclamation volition springiness the county's manager of exigency services the authorization to afloat usage each region resources and unit to assistance with the emergency.

They could aboriginal question reimbursement if a authorities oregon national exigency proclamation is issued.

LATEST FORECAST

Meteorologist Tamara Berg says Northern California volition inactive person the accidental for a ablution and possibly adjacent immoderate dependable rainfall Thursday afternoon.

| MORE | Northern California forecast: Chance for much rainfall Thursday, with interruption connected Friday

Light to mean rainfall whitethorn besides determination done the country astir 11 a.m., lingering into the aboriginal afternoon.

Around 5 p.m., skies volition commencement to wide retired crossed the Valley floor.

Berg says Friday volition springiness Northern California a accidental to adust retired crossed the area.

“And we decidedly request it due to the fact that Saturday and Sunday we're getting into much rainfall. Saturday is an interaction time for much rain, much wind, particularly queuing up for the evening,” she said.

HERE ARE THE LATEST UPDATES:

Thursday Updates:

8:30 a.m.: Here's an update connected reservoir levels.

Looking up to our adjacent system, which volition travel done this weekend:

Models indicating that the champion rainfall volition autumn successful basins that travel into Shasta and Oroville. Some rainfall for the American River Basin, but precise manageable inflows astatine Folsom erstwhile again. @kcranews pic.twitter.com/kYu00I9QHY

— Heather Waldman (@KCRAHeather) January 5, 2023

7:44 a.m.: Elk Grove volition proceed to connection sandbags to its residents contiguous from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.

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7:40 a.m.: The metropolis of Folsom is informing of localized flooding passim the area.

6:40 a.m.: Corral Hollow is closed aft the I-580 ramps successful Tracy owed to a mudslide successful the canyon.

6:18 a.m.: Big rigs are astatine maximum restrictions for concatenation controls successful the Sierra, CHP Truckee says.

❄️ CHAIN CONTROL UPDATE ❄️

01/05/23 6:15am

• I-80 is R2 successful some directions from Truckee to Nyack.
• SR-267 is R2 from Northstar to Kings Beach.
• SR-28 is R2 from Tahoe City to Kings Beach.
• SR-89 is R-1 from Truckee to Tahoe City. pic.twitter.com/3rkGhzpd6H

— CHP Truckee (@CHP_Truckee) January 5, 2023

6:10 a.m.: Auburn constabulary pass of debris successful the roadway from the storm.

5:45 a.m.: Caltrans says that southbound postulation connected Highway 99 is nary longer reduced to 1 lane astatine Sheldon Road successful Elk Grove.

5:37 a.m.: County officers successful South Lake Tahoe are closed today, El Dorado County officials say.

Wednesday Updates:

10:21 p.m.: Chain controls are successful effect connected Highway 50 from Twin Bridges to Meyers.

9:46 p.m.: Chain controls are successful effect connected Interstate 80 from Donner Lake Road to Kingvale.

9:42 p.m.: Tree limbs fell connected telephone poles on Meiss Road adjacent the Sloughhouse country of Sacramento County.

Telecommunications enactment compromised aft trees/limbs fell connected it. This is disconnected Meiss Road adjacent Sloughhouse, implicit Deer Creek. Sacramento County crews retired looking for occupation spots conscionable similar this. Storm harm updates connected @kcranews pic.twitter.com/U1u5LbWSGH

— Melanie Wingo | KCRA 3 (@MelWingoKCRA) January 5, 2023

9:31 p.m.: Lincoln had the highest upwind gust truthful acold successful our area.

9:20 p.m.: Northern California saw dozens of h2o rescues implicit the weekend. Cal OES is acceptable for much rescues if needed with a radical of Sacramento firefighters trained successful h2o rescues. KCRA 3's Jason Marks reports successful the video below.

9:10 p.m.: One of the victims of the New Year's Eve tempest has been identified by the Sacramento County coroner arsenic 57-year-old Mei Keng Lam, from San Leandro. Learn more.

9:08 p.m.: Here's a look astatine wherever lightning has been spotted lately and different tempest updates.

8:22 p.m.: Chief Meteorologist Mark Finan is talking astir the tempest connected Facebook live.

8:11 p.m.: KCRA 3 Reporter Melanie Wingo spotted a downed histrion disconnected Highway 16 successful the Sloughhouse country of Sacramento County. It is not blocking traffic.

RIP, large aged tree. Another casualty of todays #castorm. This 1 is disconnected Highway 16/Jackson Road successful Sloughhouse area. Not blocking traffic, nary evident injuries related to it. But it looks arsenic if it volition beryllium a large occupation to region this one. @kcranews pic.twitter.com/6tq9MtoUyn

— Melanie Wingo | KCRA 3 (@MelWingoKCRA) January 5, 2023

7:45 p.m.: Thunder and lightning are moving done Calaveras County, and thunder is showing up connected the unrecorded radar adjacent Cameron Park.

7:41 p.m.: KCRA 3 Reporter Orko Manna is successful Grass Valley, wherever it is bedewed and windy.

7:28 p.m.: Wind gusts person topped 50 mph successful immoderate areas.

7 p.m.: KCRA 3 Chief Meteorologist Mark Finan goes implicit the upwind forecast for the coming days. Watch successful the video below.

6:40 p.m.: There are astir 140,000 customers crossed the authorities without power. Most of them are on the coast. In San Joaquin County, determination are astir 3,800 customers without power.

Track unrecorded outages here.

6:39 p.m.: The California Highway Patrol is reporting a histrion down, blocking a lane connected a unsighted curve on the 3300 artifact of Appian Way successful El Dorado Hills.

6:15 p.m.: KCRA 3 Chief Meteorologist Mark Finan releases the strongest winds recorded truthful acold tonight.

6 p.m.: In the Clarksburg-Walnut Grove area, galore of the 1,500 PG&E customers without energy went connected time 4 without powerfulness precocious Wednesday evening. The country is 1 of the hardest deed by outages aft the New Year's Eve tempest that deed Northern California.

PG&E said it requested assistance from crews successful Southern California Edison and West Coast Utilities to assistance with powerfulness restoration though crews struggled with entree to flooded areas and downed powerfulness lines and trees.

The energy institution besides gave impermanent generators truthful that the h2o territory could alleviate flooding.

Tom Lovering, who has lived successful his Clarksburg location for 50 years, is 1 of the hundreds of residents successful the country impacted by the powerfulness outage.

"We person a tiny generator that keeps the refrigerator happy. Our biggest occupation is that we person good water, and we don't person immoderate h2o pressure. We ran retired of h2o connected the 2nd day," Lovering said.

Others similar Courtney Pitcher, who works astatine Husick's Taphouse, said that they've had to unopen down their full operations and person mislaid a bully chunk of their product.

"The biggest situation that we person is refrigeration, but we can't flush the toilets," Pitcher said.

PG&E is mounting up connected Thursday astatine the Clarksburg Fire Protection District occurrence presumption astatine 52902 Clarksburg Road to reply lawsuit questions astir their outage concern from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. The inferior volition besides bring a charging presumption truthful that residents tin complaint tiny electronics specified arsenic phones, tablets and laptops.

5:54 p.m.: Caltrans says a downed histrion connected eastbound Highway 50 astatine Bradshaw Road is blocking lanes 2-4.

5:46 p.m.: The California Highway Patrol is reporting a histrion down connected Horshoe Bar Road successful the Loomis country of Placer County.

5:36 p.m.: Comcast confirmed connected Wednesday an outage for Sacramento country Xfinity customers who person been without work for days since the New Year’s Eve tempest and warned that tonight's tempest could origin much disruptions.

The cablegram and net elephantine blamed the caller outage successful portion connected harm astatine its works aft trees toppled into powerlines utilized by 1 of its plants.

5:35 p.m.: The Sacramento County Sheriff's Office said a third assemblage was recovered wrong a submerged conveyance astatine New Hope Road westbound of Orr Road. This is westbound of the Galt area.

Days ago, the assemblage of a antheral was recovered adjacent Dillard Road eastbound of Highway 99. The assemblage of a pistillate was besides recovered successful this country Wednesday morning. The 3rd assemblage was recovered astir a half-hour thrust away.

The identities of these 3 person not been released arsenic of Wednesday evening.

5:24 p.m.: Wind gusts of 40 mph were recorded successful Sacramento, according to KCRA 3 Chief Meteorologist Mark Finan.

5:22 p.m.: The El Dorado County Sheriff's Office is informing residents who unrecorded adjacent oregon are traveling by the Caldor and Mosquito occurrence pain scars of imaginable mudslides and debris flows.

The Mosquito Fire pain scar country includes the properties northbound of Volcanoville Road into the Middle Fork of the American River Canyon, which borders Placer County.

The Caldor Fire pain scar includes the municipality of Grizzly Flats, Mormon Emigrant Trail, Highway 50 Corridor and Christmas Valley successful the South Lake Tahoe basin.

5:17 p.m.: Winds are picking up successful Sacramento, arsenic video by KCRA 3 Reporter Orko Manna shows.

5:15 p.m.: Power was restored to astir each 11,000 SMUD customers successful the Florin country minutes aft the outage was reported astatine 5:05 p.m.

Outages are expected to popular up and beryllium resolved continually amid stormy upwind tonight.

Track outages here.

5:08 p.m.: SMUD customers successful the Oak Park vicinity of Sacramento had their powerfulness restored. Meanwhile, an outage successful Florin adjacent Cosumnes River Boulevard and Bruceville Road is affecting astir 11,000 customers.

That outage was reported astatine 5:05 p.m. There is nary estimated clip of restoration.

Outages are expected to popular up continually amid stormy upwind tonight.

Track outages here.

4:45 p.m.: Yolo County issued a section exigency proclamation owed to windy and rainy conditions. The proclamation allows the region to acceptable immoderate rules oregon mandates deemed indispensable for nationalist safety.

"The severity of the wintertime tempest successful Yolo County highlights the request to instrumentality precautions to guarantee the information and well-being of Yolo County residents," said Oscar Villegas, the seat of the Yolo County Board of Supervisors, successful an email.

4:40 p.m.: KCRA 3 Chief Meteorologist Mark Finan goes implicit the forecast for contiguous and the adjacent fewer days. Watch successful the video below.

4:30 p.m.: The National Weather Service tweeted that the Sacramento International Airport reported 46 mph upwind gusts astatine 3:13 p.m.

The upwind is arriving. Sac Executive Airport reporting a highest gust from the SE astatine 46 mph astatine 313 pm. The beardown winds volition summation and grow successful sum crossed the Valley and foothills aboriginal this evening. #cawx

— NWS Sacramento (@NWSSacramento) January 5, 2023

4:26 p.m.: Here's an update connected the tempest timing connected the Bay Area.

We cognize you're waiting connected the heavier rain. It's coming. Here are approximate accomplishment times for the heavier rainfall band. Expect flooding concerns to summation aboriginal this day into contiguous crossed the area. Stay safe! #cawx pic.twitter.com/11brmjqaD3

— NWS Bay Area 🌉 (@NWSBayArea) January 4, 2023

4:21 p.m.: The Sacramento Municipal Utility District, oregon SMUD, is reporting astir 3,800 customers without powerfulness successful the Oak Park vicinity adjacent Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard and 12th Avenue.

There is nary estimated clip of restoration.

Check outages here.

4:20 p.m.: Water rescue crews from Bakersfield are stationed successful El Dorado Hills to assistance with immoderate imaginable flooding tonight.

Here astatine @Cal_OES a Type 2 swift h2o rescue squad with the Bakersfield Fire Dept. conscionable pulled up. Will beryllium prepositioned successful El Dorado Hills to assistance respond to flooding related issues and concerns. pic.twitter.com/GhKa0DMgup

— Ashley Zavala (@ZavalaA) January 5, 2023

2:35 p.m.: Here's wherever to get a statewide look astatine powerfulness outages successful California.

2:31 p.m.: Some counties successful Northern California have closed their parks due to the fact that they're disquieted astir falling trees. Here's different reminder from Sac County.

REMINDER: We expect this tempest to bring down a important fig of trees. We person closed each parks wrong the Regional Parks system. Do not effort to participate our parks during these hazardous conditions. https://t.co/5ltoancoib

— SacRegionalParks (@SacRegionalPark) January 4, 2023

1:49 p.m.: Here is however to motion up for region exigency alerts.

1:34 p.m.: Officials person confirmed a 2nd death of idiosyncratic adjacent Highway 99 aft the New Year's Eve flooding. A woman's assemblage was recovered contiguous astir 10 a.m. adjacent Dillard Road, CHP confirmed to KCRA 3.

CHP has confirmed to KCRA 3 that the assemblage of an pistillate was recovered contiguous portion officials were towing cars adjacent Dillard Road successful Sacramento County eastbound of Highway 99. Her assemblage was recovered extracurricular the car successful a field

— kcranews (@kcranews) January 4, 2023

1:28 p.m.: KCRA 3 has learned determination are nary plans to cancel tonight's Kings crippled astatine Golden 1 Center owed to the storm.

12:25 p.m.: Watch the afloat property league organized by Cal OES successful the video beneath wherever officials outlined the threats from terrible upwind crossed the state.

12:03 p.m.: CHP says that concatenation controls person been lifted connected I-80 implicit Donner Summit but question is discouraged, particularly aboriginal tonight.

11:33 a.m.: Karla Nemeth, the Department of Water Resources manager for California, says agrarian levees are the astir susceptible infrastructure successful the state.

"It's precise casual for smaller communities to get overwhelmed," she said.

She called for radical to enactment disconnected the roads and said that "high upwind events make debris that tin exacerbate flooding."

“The agrarian levee strategy is astir vulnerable” during this wintertime storm.
-Karla Nemeth, Dept. of Water Resources Director.@kcranews

— Brittany Johnson (@BJohnsonKCRA) January 4, 2023

11:24 a.m.: Here are much updates from the briefing truthful acold astir the storm.

Natural Resources Secretary Wade Crowfoot likens CA drought concern to football:

"We're inactive successful the archetypal fractional of the crippled and we person immoderate points connected the board, but we're a agelong mode however this bedewed play impacts wide drought."

— Ashley Zavala (@ZavalaA) January 4, 2023

CalTrans and CHP are asking Californians to debar non-essential question today.

— Ashley Zavala (@ZavalaA) January 4, 2023

CalTrans and CHP are asking Californians to debar non-essential question today.

— Ashley Zavala (@ZavalaA) January 4, 2023

Widespread flooding and powerfulness outages expected successful communities passim the state, according to officials.

— Brittany Johnson (@BJohnsonKCRA) January 4, 2023

Caltrans has activated 12 exigency effect centers crossed the authorities and 4K crews volition beryllium successful the field.

Caltrans urges radical to cheque QuickMaps >> https://t.co/NpNhH5dNAS

Crews volition beryllium looking for mudslides and rockslides and volition adjacent roadways if they consciousness it's unsafe.

— kcranews (@kcranews) January 4, 2023

11:09 a.m.: Gov. Gavin Newsom has declared a authorities of exigency successful beforehand of the storm, Cal OES Director Nancy Ward conscionable announced.

Ward called for radical to enactment informed by signing up for region exigency alerts and to cheque connected household members and neighbors.

"Always travel the absorption of section authorities," she said. "If you are told to evacuate, delight bash so."

The authorities operations center, wherever we are now, is present operating astatine its highest level, wherever agencies from crossed the authorities are gathered and monitoring conditions astir the timepiece to coordinate resources and response.

Gov. Newsom himself is not present but was this morning.

— Ashley Zavala (@ZavalaA) January 4, 2023

10:49 a.m.: Capt. Keith Wade with the Sacramento Fire Department joined KCRA 3 connected Wednesday greeting to explicate the quality betwixt erstwhile radical should telephone 311 versus 911.

Downed trees successful a roadway oregon flooding connected roads is simply a 311 call, helium said. It shouldn’t beryllium a 911 telephone unless the histrion has crashed into a location oregon determination is simply a downed powerline.

Wade besides urged radical not to thrust done h2o that is rushing crossed streets.

It lone takes a ft of h2o to render a sedan incapable, helium said.

“Use immoderate communal consciousness today,” helium said.

7:42 a.m.: NWS Sacramento encourages those who indispensable question to bash truthful earlier dark.

It's here! Precip travel successful 2 waves contiguous - this greeting with a little interruption successful the afternoon. Then the existent amusement begins this evening with dense rainfall, upland snowfall & VERY beardown winds. If you person to question today, it mightiness beryllium bully to beryllium to your destination earlier dark! #cawx pic.twitter.com/PiycR64Jlk

— NWS Sacramento (@NWSSacramento) January 4, 2023

7:22 a.m.: SMUD advises that if a tempest knocks down a powerfulness line, presume it is energized and telephone SMUD oregon 911 immediately.

Please beryllium safe!

If stormy upwind knocks down a powerfulness line:

📞 Stay distant and telephone SMUD astatine 1-888-456-SMUD (7683) oregon 911 immediately.

⚡️ Assume the enactment is “energized” and enactment distant and pass others to bash the same. pic.twitter.com/xbovv9cx1q

— SMUD (@SMUDUpdates) January 4, 2023

6:37 a.m.: The National Weather Service successful Reno says that snowfall levels volition beryllium rising aboriginal contiguous and past falling again overnight.

Snow levels volition beryllium rising successful the Sierra aboriginal this morning, and this day successful W NV, past falling again overnight.

— NWS Reno (@NWSReno) January 4, 2023

Tuesday Updates:

11:12 p.m.: The metropolis of Sacramento is asking radical to call 311 if they spot thoroughfare flooding, postulation lights that aren't working, oregon downed trees, KCRA 3's Melanie Wingo reports.

10:20 p.m.: PG&E and SMUD some expect much powerfulness outages time and are sharing tempest information tips. They include:

Never interaction downed wires
Use generators safely. PG&E recommends they are installed by a licensed electrician and successful a well-ventilated area.
Use flashlights, not candles
Have a backup phone
Have caller drinking h2o and ice
Turn disconnected appliances
Prepare an exigency kit, including a portable compartment telephone charger, flashlight, caller drinking water, other batteries, a manual tin opener and a battery-operated radio.

| Video beneath | PG&E addresses customers' agelong waits for powerfulness restoration successful San Joaquin County

8:51 p.m.: KCRA 3's Josie Heart spoke to a household that faced days stuck wrong their home successful Galt aft a histrion knocked down a powerfulness rod adjacent to their property.

KCRA 3's Michelle Bandur spoke to neighbors successful Sacramento's Swanston Estates vicinity wherever a monolithic conifer histrion fell but avoided powerlines.

7:42 p.m.: Here's an update from the Sacramento Fire Department.

Avoid driving during the tempest if you can. People are urged to program up and ticker for debris and localized flooding connected the roads. Never thrust oregon locomotion done flood waters. Turn around, Don’t drown!

— Sacramento Fire Department (@SacFirePIO) January 4, 2023

7:16 p.m.: SMUD says it has restored powerfulness to much than 99% of customers whose lights went retired successful the New Year's Eve storm. The tempest caused much than 120 poles to beryllium blown down and uprooted astatine slightest 115 trees.

SMUD besides warned that Wednesday's tempest is expected to "be worse" with "multiple hours of precocious winds and gusts exceeding 50mph."

"The crushed is present saturated from aggregate days of dense rains and much downed trees and poles are likely," SMUD said.

5:26 p.m.: San Joaquin County says it volition adjacent each regional, assemblage and vicinity parks connected Wednesday successful beforehand of the storm. The closure could past done Thursday oregon potentially, Friday, too.

The region said the Micke Grove Zoo and Micke Grove Regional Park had "significant flooding and upwind damage" and volition stay closed done Sunday.

5:13 p.m.: There are inactive much than 1,000 SMUD customers without power.

5:04 p.m.: The National Weather Service says upland question is "highly discouraged" tomorrow.

Heavy snowfall returns Wednesday - arsenic a beardown strategy moves done the area. Snowfall amounts up to 1-3 feet are possible. Expect concatenation controls, unsafe travel, beardown winds and periods of whiteout conditions. Mountain question is HIGHLY discouraged! #cawx pic.twitter.com/9aH8MJoA6d

— NWS Sacramento (@NWSSacramento) January 4, 2023

4:55 p.m.: KCRA 3's Melanie Wingo reports that truthful acold the metropolis of Sacramento has received 200 calls astir downed trees oregon limbs. The metropolis expects to proceed to beryllium engaged done this week with reports into 311.

4:16 p.m.: Stockton Unified School District says families should "use caution and let other clip portion traveling to school" connected Wednesday.

4:14 p.m.: Sacramento County is besides closing each parks owed to histrion hazards.