US weekend weather: California storms; tornado recovery in South - USA TODAY

Rain-soaked Californians are getting different circular of storms implicit the play that threaten more flooding, landslides, hail and dense upland snow.

The stormy upwind came arsenic betterment efforts proceed successful the state, which has been battered by atmospheric stream storms since precocious December, leaving astatine slightest 19 radical dead.

A 5-year-old lad besides was inactive missing Saturday aft being swept retired of his mother's car by flood waters earlier successful the week. Local authorities temporarily suspended the hunt for the boy, Kyle Doan, Saturday day owed to "unsuitable" weather, the San Luis Obispo Sheriff's Office said connected Facebook.

Forecasts amusement rain hitting agrarian areas successful Northern California peculiarly hard this weekend. Previous storms person soaked and damaged the heavy populated San Francisco Bay country and surrounding coastal communities.

"Each circular of rainfall falling connected apical of saturated and unstable crushed volition heighten the hazard of caller landslides and debris flows," AccuWeather Meteorologist Reneé Duff said.

Flooding successful Napa, mudslide reported adjacent Dublin, California

There were already reports Saturday of important flooding successful parts of Napa County, the bosom of Northern California's vino region, according to the county's sheriff's office. Flood warnings were issued northbound of San Francisco Bay, including Napa, Marin, Sonoma and Mendocino counties. A mudslide prompted roadworthy closures adjacent Dublin, California., according to the California Highway Patrol.

Atmospheric rivers, sometimes called "rivers successful the sky," form when a enactment of warm, moist air, usually coming from adjacent islands crossed the Pacific Ocean to the West Coast, falls arsenic dense rainfall erstwhile it reaches cooler aerial implicit land.

Another atmospheric river is expected to deed the authorities Monday.

"I cognize however fatigued you each are," Gov. Gavin Newsom said Friday, urging caution up of incoming storms. "Just support a small much vigilance implicit the people of the adjacent weekend."

California's weekend storm forecast

The tempest is expected to highest Saturday arsenic it moves inland passim the day, according to the National Weather Service.

• More flood risk: With the crushed already saturated from erstwhile rainfall, much flooding and imaginable landslides are expected crossed the authorities done Monday, according to the upwind work forecast.
• Heavy snow: Heavy upland snows of 3 to 6 feet and beardown winds are besides forecast to make whiteout conditions successful the mountains of bluish and cardinal California, making question astir impossible. The UC Berkeley Central Sierra Snow Lab said Saturday greeting that it received 21.3 inches of snowfall successful 24 hours and that its snowpack of astir 10 feet was expected to turn respective much feet by Monday.
• Strong winds: Wind advisories are besides successful spot Saturday for coastal California and the Central Valley with sustained winds of 20 to 30 mph and gusts of 50 mph.
• Power outages: Stormy upwind whitethorn origin much trees to autumn and much powerfulness outages Saturday, said David Lawrence, meteorologist with the National Weather Service. More than 40,000 households successful the authorities were inactive without powerfulness Saturday morning, according to poweroutage.us.

"People volition go complacent, but the crushed is saturated. It is extremely, highly dangerous," Nancy Ward, the manager of the governor’s exigency services bureau said astatine a Friday quality conference. "And that h2o tin proceed to emergence good aft the storms person passed."

California harm assessments expected to surpass $1 billion

Officials person already begun harm assessments, which are expected to surpass $1 billion.

As dense rain, mudslides and hurricane-force winds person walloped the state, California has seen homes flooded, roofs torn disconnected houses, levees breached, cars submerged and trees uprooted.

About 14 cardinal gallons of sewage spilled into the Ventura River successful confederate California arsenic a effect of the storms, according to Ventura County wellness officials. Two sewer lines besides leaked into San Antonio Creek this week owed to tempest damage.

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California, agelong plagued by drought, has reported a full of much than 9 inches of rainfall connected mean crossed the authorities implicit the past 18 days. Some parts of the authorities person already met their mean yearly rainfalls, Lawrence said.

President Joe Biden connected Monday issued an exigency declaration to enactment the tempest effect successful much than a twelve counties. But Newsom has said he is inactive waiting connected Biden to state a large catastrophe declaration that would supply much resources.

Recovery continues aft tornadoes teardrop done Alabama, Georgia

As terrible upwind continues to besiege California, the South is recovering from a bid of deadly tornadoes. 

Recovery efforts continued into the play aft galore tornadoes tore done the South, sidesplitting astatine slightest 9 radical successful Alabama and Georgia.

Residents salvaged belongings Friday, and rescue teams searched for survivors among the rubble, sometimes digging into collapsed homes to escaped trapped residents.

The monolithic tempest strategy Thursday flipped mobile homes, uprooted trees, collapsed buildings, snapped inferior poles and derailed a freight train.

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Tornado harm was reported successful astatine least 14 counties successful Alabama and 14 successful Georgia, according to the National Weather Service. At least 35 imaginable tornado touchdowns were reported crossed the Southeast, Federal Emergency Management Agency officials said.

Meteorologists accidental it whitethorn instrumentality days to afloat recognize the spot of the storm.

Among those killed successful the tempest was a Georgia Department of Transportation idiosyncratic and a 5-year-old child who was riding successful a conveyance deed by a falling histrion successful Georgia, officials said.

The kid was identified arsenic Egan Jeffcoat by his grandmother, ABC News reported. His mother, Tabatha Anglin, wasn't injured, the grandma said, but different big successful the car had captious injuries, Butts County officials antecedently said.

A fundraiser for Egan's parent had raised astir $20,000 Saturday. His parent had picked him up aboriginal from schoolhouse truthful they could marque it location earlier the storm, but a histrion fell connected the car, sidesplitting Egan, according to the fundraiser, which was verified by GoFundMe. 

"His ma was a azygous mom, and Egan was her full world," the fundraiser reads.

Dig deeper: More sum of flooding

• Floods, rainfall person plagued California — what happened to the drought? It's inactive a problem, caller information says.

• 'Rivers successful the sky': What precisely is an atmospheric river?

• Before and after: Drastic images seizure the devastation from a bid of storms successful California

Contributing: Marty Roney, Montgomery Advertiser; The Associated Press

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