San Francisco: A large storm coated towards southern California on Monday after flooding the highway, shifting trees, cutting power and causing stone slides and mud flow in the burning area in the north in the north.
Rain of wetting and strong winds accompanied the arrival of the atmospheric river weekend – Pacific humidity tassels – to the country hit by drought.
Records of rainfall destroyed and heavy snow pounding high altitude Sierra Nevada.
National weather services issued various flood flash warnings.
There are extensive power outages in northern California, with Pacific Gas & Electrical Reporting Sunday night that around 130,000 customers do not have electricity, even though the utility says power has been restored to around 250,000 customers.
Floods were reported across the Bay area of ​​San Francisco, closing the streets in Berkeley, encouraging the Bay Square of Oakland Bay and Rivers who overflowed in Napa and Sonoma countries.
“This is the last 24 hours unforgettable for the bay area when the atmospheric river that was long talked about passed the area,” said the local weather office.
“We really have switched from fires / drought to flood one storm cycle.” Weather services are called total curimal rainfall “surprisingly,” including 11 inches (27.9 centimeters) at the base of Tamalpais Marin Mountain and and 4.02 inches (10.2 centimeters) in downtown San Francisco.
“It seems that yesterday was the 4th day that was in the center of SF where the note returned to the years of Rush Gold,” said the weather service.
About 150 miles (241 kilometers) in the north, the Patrol of the California highway closed the expanse of the state of 70 in Butte and Plumas from several landslides in a large Dixie fire burn.
In the Central State Valley, Sacramento got 5.4 inches rain (13.7 centimeters), destroying rainfall records throughout the day of all time to 1880, said weather service.
Interstate 80, the main highway through Sierra to Reno, Nevada, was closed by thick snow Monday morning.
The same storm system also slams Oregon and the state of Washington, causing a power outage that affects tens of thousands of people.
Two people were killed when a tree fell on a vehicle in the larger Seattle area.
In California, Colusa and Yolo, the state highway, 16 and 20 were closed for several miles due to landslides, said the state transportation department.
The burn area remains a concern because the land without vegetation cannot absorb heavy rain quickly, increase the likelihood of flash flood.
“If you are around the burn scars recently and yet, be prepared now for the possibility of flowing debris,” Sacramento Weather Service Tweeted.
“If you are told to be evacuated by local officials, or you feel threatened, don’t hesitate to do it.
If it’s too late to evacuate, get to a higher place.” Selatan San Francisco, the evacuation order applies in the mountains of Santa Cruz for concerns that some inches Rain can trigger the flow of debris in the CZU flash complex fire burning scars when the storm moves until early Monday.
South South, the evacuation warning for the parts of the West Barbara Santa Barbara area was increased to the evacuation order in the area burned by Fire Alisal this month.
Officials said the mountainous regions above 9,000 feet (2,745 meters) at Sierra Nevada could get 18 inch snow (46 centimeters) or more from Sunday to Monday morning.
The recent storm has helped contain some of the largest forest fires in this country this year.
But it still has to be seen if the wet weather will make a dent in drought that disrupts California and the western United States.
California’s climate is hotter and more dry now and it means rain and snow falls more likely to evaporate and tend to absorb into the ground.
California 2021 water year, which ended on September 30, was the most dried leading on the record and last year was the fifth drest in the notes.
Some of the most important reservoirs of the state are at a low level record.