The National Weather Service reported that flash flooding will continue throughout Monday in California. The situation has been generated by the arrival of an atmospheric river.
"The threat for flash flooding centers on Southern California Monday as a deep upper-level trough/Pacific storm system and associated Atmospheric River," the service wrote in an alert published this Monday on its official website.
#WPC_MD 0048 affecting Central and Northern CA Coastal Ranges and the Central Valley, #cawx, https://t.co/secWHo3EdA pic.twitter.com/YWmDodblw8
— NWS Weather Prediction Center (@NWSWPC) February 4, 2024
A new atmospheric river will hit California from this Saturday night until Tuesday. Although rain is expected throughout almost the entire state, the coastal areas of the center and south of the state will be the most affected. The National Weather Service warned of possible flooding.
In the midst of the natural phenomenon, it was shown that more than 800,000 people were without electricity services. However, at the time of writing, according to the tracking website PowerOutage.us, at least 600,000 were shown to be affected. According to various media outlets, blackouts in the state are expected to spread especially in the central and southern parts as the atmospheric river becomes stronger.
Likewise, the National Weather Service explained that the situation will make travel dangerous or impossible: "Very heavy mountain snows will continue for higher elevations of the Sierra Nevada, generally above 5000 feet."
