Already waterlogged from a historic storm, Northern California began bracing for a second blast from an atmospheric river that is expected to be unleashed on Wednesday.
On Dec. 31, San Francisco received 5.46 inches of rain, just 0.08 inches shy of the all-time daily precipitation record set in 1994. The torrential downpour flooded streets and highways around the Bay Area, caused rivers and streams to overflow their banks and knocked out power to more than 140,000 homes.
The National Weather Service has posted flood watches on Monday for the San Francisco Bay Area and surrounding counties.From the Bay Area down to the Central Coast, winds between 20 and 40 mph winds are expected, with gusts reaching as high as 70 mph, the National Weather Service said in a separate advisory Monday.
"To put it simply, this will likely be one of the most impactful systems on a widespread scale that this meteorologist has seen in a long while. The impacts will include flooding, roads washing out, hillside collapsing, trees down , widespread power outages, immediate disruption to commerce, and the worst of all, likely loss of human life. This is truly a brutal system that we are looking at and needs to be taken seriously."State officials have made 3.
"This is really going to help a lot with the short-term drought in Northern California, perhaps even erase short-term drought conditions,"UCLA climate scientist Daniel Swain said in a YouTube forum with reporters on Tuesday. "But it's going to take a lot more to completely obviate the longer-term, multi-year impacts, and in the broader Colorado River Basin context, this isn't really going to do much at all.
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