(Updated Monday morning to include wind threat)
More rain is expected through Tuesday across communities of northern California that have already seen an above average wet season. The additional rain will lead to flash flooding concerns, including in the area around the battered Oroville Dam spillway.
The same storm system that wreaked havoc in southern California on Friday is emerging from the Desert Southwest today. We’re expecting severe storms to spark late this afternoon into tonight over parts of the Southern Plains. Isolated tornadoes, damaging winds, and large hail will all be threats!
Widespread, prolonged heavy rains on Friday overwhelmed watersheds across much of southern California. The L.A. Basin and Santa Ynez Range were particularly hard hit. What’s the next target in this stormy Pacific pattern?
Los Angeles has already seen more rain in 2017 than in all of 2016. An impending storm set to douse the region later this week may bring the city above its yearly rainfall average only 50 days into the new year.
