Flood Preparedness Week will have all but come and gone before Solano County is expected to see any more rainfall. The National Weather Service in Sacramento is reporting a new storm system coming in over the weekend, with a chance of rain into next week. Flood Preparedness Week runs Oct. 19-26. However, the state Department of Water Resources said now is the time to get prepared for the possibility of flooding, and that starts with knowing your risk. … The warning comes after two straight years with major flood events across the state. It also comes with what forecasters are saying will be a La Niña winter, which likely means a drier winter in Southern California, and a lot of uncertainty in the northern part of the state – including the Bay Area. Right now, the Climate Prediction Center reports there is an equal chance that rainfall will be above normal this winter or below normal this winter. The historic trend is for slightly above average rain during La Niña years in Northern California.

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