A turbulent Pacific jet stream aimed two more atmospheric rivers at the California coast Friday, carrying with them a renewed threat of flooding, debris flows, power outages and toppling trees.
"The current storm will bring heavy rain, flooding, rising creeks, landslides, falling branches/trees, power outages & clogged storm drains," their social media post read."Please stay away from coastal areas, surging creeks, flooded roadways, and down power lines."
"They act like rivers in the sky," Scripps researcher Marty Ralph of the unrelenting pulses of moisture plumes streaming over the Bay Area since Dec. 26th.The first pulse of moisture on Friday will usher in a Cat. 3 atmospheric river early Saturday. decaying atmospheric river and behaving as expected so far. Rain rates of around 0.25 per hour in the North Bay and Santa Cruz Mountains in favorable upslope flow with lighter amounts in the valleys."
At a news conference Thursday, Monterey County Sheriff Tina Nieto begged local residents who have told to evacuate to leave their homes.
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