California braces for heavy rain and snow systems this weekend and into the week
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Via: perrie-halpern • 8 months ago • 4 commentsBy: Rebecca Cohen and Christine Rapp
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Multiple storm systems will move through the West Coast this weekend and into the beginning of the workweek, pummeling California with both rain and snow.
The storms in the West are expected to bring flooding and damaging winds across the region, as well as feet of snow in the mountains.
The first of the storms hit California on Saturday, with steady rain beginning Saturday morning in the central and northern regions of the state.
By Saturday night, widespread rain and mountain snow will develop, pushing the storm into the Rockies and Intermountain West by Sunday morning.
Meanwhile, a stronger storm system is approaching the Golden State and is expected to sit offshore for most of the day Sunday before it brings steady rain showers onshore by the late evening.
Late Sunday into Monday is when rainfall rates will peak at 0.5-1 inches per hour. As Monday continues, Californians can expect torrential rain, mountain snow and damaging wind gusts that will continue throughout most of the day before moving east into the Rockies by Tuesday.
Also on Monday, parts of the Sierra Nevada and Northern California ranges could see 2-6 feet of snow.
At lower elevations, rainfall totals will generally range from 2-4 inches, but will range from 4-8 inches in the foothills and the mountains, leading to localized flash flooding.
Currently, 26 million people across the state are under flood alerts, including in Los Angeles, Fresno, Sacramento and San Francisco.
Similarly, damaging wind gusts are possible, as gusts across the state will range from 30-50 mph, with some locations in the mountains expecting gusts that exceed 60 mph. Sixteen million people across central and Northern California are under wind alerts, including in San Francisco.
The Northeast also faced snow on Saturday
On the other side of the country, snow dumped on the Northeast on Saturday morning.
By 11 a.m., areas in New Jersey and Pennsylvania already had more than a foot of snow on the ground. In New York City's Central Park, only 2 inches of snow coated the ground.
Flurries continued through the afternoon across the mid-Atlantic, but little or no additional accumulation was expected to add to the initial dumping. By the afternoon, conditions were mostly clear.
As the weekend continues, lake effect snow will affect western New York, Pennsylvania and northeast Ohio, where totals are expected to range from 2-6 inches.
In some areas, 10-12 inches are possible. Winter alerts remain in effect for Buffalo, Erie and Cleveland.
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Last night in Sacramento really rainy and a lot of wind. This morning? Beautiful blue skies, maybe 60 degrees.
We're getting ready for 3 days of rain in L.A. Starting any time now. I live on a hillside, but we have a very good drainage system so we should be OK. With all of the rain we've had the only problem has been some minor roof leaking.
Another wild rainy windy night last night but, again, nice in the morning. I hope your drainage works well Gsquared. We don't have anything resembling a hillside in Sac but we do have a lot of low ground. Long live Tulare Lake.
One of my cousins who lives in Davis called and mentioned that a couple parts of his fence got damaged by the wind. He had to go out and buy some wood to hold the fence up.