"The current rainfall total is 23.19 inches, approximately 170% of the season average over the past 67 years," according to the city report. Meanwhile, the growing landslide zone has spread about 680 acres, prompting evacuation warnings. "The City has been navigating...
Chances of rain increase late Friday and Saturday, with rainfall totals projected to be higher and more widespread than the event that affected the region earlier this week. Strong winds, particularly in the mountains and desert slopes, are in the forecast for Saturday....
2024The Weather Service reported Friday that the 3-day rain total in Santa Rosa was 12.47 inches, breaking the previous record of 9.96 inches set in October 2021. It is the most amount of rain that has fallen
AccuWeather estimates that the preliminary total damage and economic loss from the intense storms and record rainfall in California this week will range between 9 and 11 billion U.S. dollars. The figures could rise as the storm effects are continuing to be felt and some areas of the state hav...
The early 2024 rainfall was a boon to other water supplies in California. Lake Oroville, the state’s second-largest reservoir, also reachedfull capacityfor the second year in a row. Even with controlled water releases throughout the winter, the reservoir held 128 percent of its average capacit...
The atmospheric rivers this month brought heavy rainfall in Southern California, triggering flooding and debris flows that damaged some homes andforced residents to evacuate. “It is noteworthy how different Southern California’s situation is from the rest of the state. We are now at roughly ...
After months of unusually heavy rainfall from California’s atmospheric rivers in the beginning of 2024, many projects found themselves facing delays, additional costs and setbacks due to the wet weather. In determining who is responsible for those delays, costs or setbacks, the first thing to loo...
(i.e., physical equations which translate rainfall to runoff to inundation) but with less-precise national datasets to achieve spatially consistent hazard estimates. The math and the hydrology of both types of models are presumably valid (Bates et al., 2020[4]), but they result in very ...
According to the National Weather Service, a total of 2 to 5 inches is expected across the coasts and valleys, and 4 to 8 inches across south and southwest-facing mountain slopes and foothills. Peak rainfall rates of 0.5 to 1 inch per hour are likely. Weather alerts A flood watch will ...
While isolated, heavy rainfall of up to 0.5 inches an hour is expected,forecasters sayit will generally be beneficial for the region. Ad Feedback But the ground in LA hasn’t seen a drop of rain this year. “It behaves more like cement; the ground can’t accept the water, so it all...