Record-breaking rain hits California, 2 killed in Sonoma County storm
The second of back-to-back atmospheric rivers, which unleashed heavy rain across Northern California this week killing two people, was set to dampen Southern California through Friday morning. And a potentially more powerful system could douse the Southland before or around Valentine’s Day, heightening concerns for recently burned communities in Los Angeles County. There is a 30% chance that there could be high amounts of rain between Feb. 12 and 15, Ryan Kittell, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service’s Oxnard office, said Thursday. That’s up from a 20% chance that was forecast a day earlier.
Other storm impact, flood and mudslide news:
- Los Angeles Times: Chance of strong atmospheric river storm grows, as does risk of mudslides in L.A. burn scars
- San Francisco Chronicle: Thundersnow hits California mountains: Winter storm could make travel ‘very difficult to impossible’
- CNN: Two people dead after heavy flooding as storm continues to bash California
- San Francisco Chronicle: ‘The house was moving’: Mother and daughter trapped by Sonoma County landslide after storms
- The Sacramento Bee: Sacramento-area waterway could see flooding as heavy rain raises river levels. Which one?
- Record Searchlight (Redding, Calif.): Emergency declared in Shasta County as flooding damages region
- Action News Now (Chico, Calif.): Portions of One Mile, 5 Mile Recreation Area floods as waters of Big Chico Creek overflows its banks
- Folsom Times (Folsom, Calif.): County ratifies local emergency status involving East Sacramento levee