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Rain expected overnight in Southern California



It’s ramping as much as be a significant weekend of precipitation throughout California as one of many largest storms of the season makes its approach south, with heavy snow blanketing the Sierra Nevada on Saturday and rain anticipated in a single day in Los Angeles.

The Bay Space woke Saturday to flood advisories in low-lying areas of Marin, Napa and Sonoma counties, in addition to warnings of winds gusting as much as 55 mph in some areas. A flash flood watch was additionally issued to the Colorado, Dolan and River burn areas in Monterey County.

Within the mountains, over Interstate 80 and alongside Donner Move towards Lake Tahoe, the storm was anticipated to accentuate late Saturday afternoon and into Sunday, forecasters mentioned, with 2 to 4 extra ft of snow anticipated close to Soda Springs and the Sugar Bowl Resort, which reported 65 inches of packed energy on its summit by Saturday morning.

“A major winter storm will deliver EXTREMELY harmful mountain journey this weekend,” the Nationwide Climate Service in Sacramento tweeted. “Situations are quickly deteriorating as heavy snow continues to fall, mixed with robust, gusty winds. MOUNTAIN TRAVEL IS HIGHLY DISCOURAGED!”

The storm might dump as a lot as 6 ft of snow in components of the Sierra and as much as 5 ft alongside sure peaks of the Coastal Vary and Shasta County Mountains.

Climate officers say the precipitation ought to attain Southern California round 10 p.m. Saturday and dump 1 to three inches of rain in a single day throughout the coast and valleys and as a lot as 6 inches close to the foothills. In contrast to the storm earlier this week that blasted by means of Northern California however petered out earlier than hitting Los Angeles, this storm is predicted to be a lot steadier.

“It’ll begin raining presumably within the night, however the heaviest rain might be primarily within the in a single day hours, most likely earlier than dawn … after which some lighter showers tomorrow by means of the day,” Kristen Stewart, a meteorologist with the Nationwide Climate Service in Oxnard, mentioned Saturday. “And after this primary spherical of rain … some bathe exercise is feasible by means of Sunday, after which presumably into Monday as effectively.”

A storm warning is in impact by means of Monday afternoon for the inside mountain areas of Ventura, Santa Barbara and Los Angeles counties, the place 8 to 16 inches of snow is predicted to build up above 7,000 ft. Motorists ought to brace for icy roads and count on journey delays alongside the Tejon Move and the Grapevine space of Interstate 5.

Climate officers are cautiously optimistic in regards to the state’s rainfall totals to date this water yr, which started Oct. 1. Downtown Los Angeles often will get about 2 inches of rain by round this time of the water yr, Stewart mentioned, and precipitation from simply this one storm will surpass that benchmark.

The recent snow anticipated this weekend is also a much-needed increase to the Sierra Nevada snowpack, which is important to longer-term water storage as communities throughout California reckon with the driest three-year interval on report.

However many warning that it’s too early to inform how a lot California may be relieved from the drought. Cory Mueller, a meteorologist with the Nationwide Climate Service in Sacramento, famous that California had an especially moist begin final winter — together with record-breaking rainfall and even a “bomb cyclone” — that finally did little to fight the drought.

“We had a record-setting snowpack within the Sierra on the finish of final December, after which … we noticed nothing within the new calendar yr,” Mueller mentioned. “So it’s laborious to get overly excited, however this storm is an effective begin. We’ll take it the place we will get it … and hopefully we will stick with it.”



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