The ninth in a three-week series of major winter storms is churning through California
Monday's system was relatively weak compared with earlier storms, but flooding and mudslide risks remained because the state was so saturated, forecasters said.
The sun came out Monday in San Francisco, where 20.3 inches of rain has fallen at the city's airport since Oct. 1, when California typically begins recording rainfall for the year. The average for the"water year" is 19.6 inches ,"so we've surpassed the yearly total with 8 more months to go," the San Francisco weather service officeAcross the bay in Berkeley, 10 homes were evacuated Monday when a sodden hillside collapsed, sending mud onto properties.
In Monterey County, the swollen Salinas River swamped farmland over the weekend and officials said Monday that it was still rising. To the east, flood warnings were still in effect for Merced County in the agricultural Central Valley, where Gov. Gavin Newsom visited Saturday. In Southern California, the sun shone in Los Angeles, but winter storm warnings and advisories were still in place for mountain areas, where many roads remained impassable because of mud and rock slides. Two northbound lanes of Interstate 5 near Castaic in northern LA County were closed indefinitely after a hillside collapsed.At least 20 storm-related deaths have occurred, andafter being swept out of his mother's car by floodwaters in San Luis Obispo County.
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