Excessive rain, heavy snow and landslides are expected to hit California through Thursday as a series of winter storms rip across the western US coast, prompting the Golden State's governor to declare a state of emergency.
The California governor has declared a statewide emergency. Excessive rain, heavy snow and landslides are expected to hit California through Thursday as a series of winter storms rip across the western US coast, prompting the Golden State's governor to declare a state of emergency.
"A significant atmospheric river event will affect California through Thursday with heavy to excessive rainfall, flooding with debris flows and landslides near recent burn scar areas, heavy mountain snow and high winds," the NWS said. Bars and restaurants were shuttered in San Francisco as the city girded Wednesday for a massive"bomb cyclone" - a sudden steep drop in air pressure - with local media showing flooded roads, and reports of long delays on public transport.Dozens of flights were cancelled, some schools preemptively scrapped class and around 190 000 customers across the state were without power as of early Thursday, according to the PowerOutage.us website.We're very worried about it.
"But with the recent wet conditions, a lot of the rainfall that's already fallen has already saturated the ground so any additional rainfall is going to run off instead of soak into the ground."
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