The weather service is warning of rapid rises in area creeks, streams and rivers across the region, as well as gusty winds that will likely bring trees and branches down, causing “localized damming of water ways.”
Northern California is bracing for yet another powerful storm that’s expected to bring strong winds and drench the already-battered region with heavy rain on Wednesday, prompting Gov. Newsom to declare a state of emergency to “support response and recovery efforts.”
Wednesday’s storm is the third atmospheric river that’s hit California in the last two weeks. The successive storms have brought a deluge of water to the drought-stricken state, prompting concerns of life-threatening debris flows and flooding., including the area of the August Complex fire, the River Complex fire, the Mosquito fire and the western region of the Dixie fire.
Rain had already begun falling across the region Wednesday morning, but forecasters say the most severe portion of the storm will likely hit in the afternoon, with precipitation lasting through Thursday.An atmospheric river is expected to bring washed-out roads, collapsed hillsides, possibly full groves of downed trees and more to California.
“The strong winds we’re expecting today on already-saturated soils and additional rainfall expected in the next 24 to 48 hours are really going to exacerbate the flooding concerns and the potential for wind damage and downed trees,” said Roger Gass, a meteorologist with the Bay Area National Weather Service.system that dumped more than 5 inches of rain in San Francisco. It was the area’s second wettest day in more than 170 years of records, officials said.
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