Sacramento Weather

The Sacramento region and Central Valley will be hit by an atmospheric river with floods, power outages, heavy Sierra snow, downed trees.

The weirs are expected to do the same Thursday, providing pivotal relief to the river system, Gary Lippner, deputy director of flood management and dam safety with the state Department of Water Resources, said. This storm is expected to be colder than the New Year’s Eve weather event. Several homes and roads near the Cosumnes River in south Sacramento County were flooded during the New Year’s Eve storm. The Sacramento County Board of Supervisors ratified an emergency proclamation over the winter storms in a special meeting Tuesday, paving the way for Sacramento County to get additional funds from the state, as well as aid from the Federal Emergency Management Agency. 28, in anticipation of the first damaging storm that started Dec. The strongest wind gusts are expected Wednesday afternoon through early Thursday morning, the weather service said, forecasting gusts up to 55 mph in the capital city Wednesday evening. The latter two rivers overflowed during in the New Year’s Eve storm, prompting evacuations in rural parts of south Sacramento County. The city towed vehicles after receiving multiple complaints from businesses and residents, Kelli Trapani, a city spokeswoman, said in a statement. Even more rain is expected in the foothills and parts of the Bay Area. Sacramento County expanded its capacity at the North A Shelter and is opening the Howe Park Community Center. A large tree in Curtis Park’s southeast corner lay in pieces on the grass, chopped up to avoid catastrophe. Late Wednesday, the Sacramento County Sheriff’s Office confirmed the discovery of another body.

A High Wind Warning, Winter Storm Warning and Flood Watch are in place as another storm hits Northern California.

Winds were gusting to around 38 mph amid heavy rain around the time the tree was toppled. In Sacramento County, a person was rescued after they were found ...

In an average season, the lab sees 30 feet of snow. At minimum, we’re probably looking at three to four of above-average before we can really talk about getting out of the drought.” An extra season’s worth of snow would mean 60 feet in one year. But while every drop helps, the region has a long way to go. There is no rest for the dreary in California this week. Floodwaters quickly overcame the two vehicles on an off-ramp in Tustin, California. Right now, we still have three quarters left, and there’s a lot that can happen.” The outages had dropped to about 130,000 by mid-Sunday afternoon. They were airlifted to safety and taken to a nearby hospital, but their condition was not given. Several communities opened sandbag locations for residents to take action against rising creeks and streams. [reported four homes were damaged by a mudslide](https://twitter.com/SFFDPIO/status/1609336344916164609), though no one was injured. The victim was reported missing and later found dead inside a submerged vehicle around 10:30 a.m.

After several damaging storms swept through the state in recent weeks, residents face another deluge.

Another storm system soaked California again before [barreling east across the country](https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/03/us/storm-snow-tornado-midwest.html) on Tuesday, spawning strong tornadoes, thunderstorms and flooding in parts of the Plains, Upper Midwest and South after dropping snow on Utah and Arizona. [water experts have cautioned](https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/31/us/california-weather-rain-flooding-landslides.html) that no matter how much precipitation there is in the coming days, residents should still plan to conserve. “This is really a godsend, just to see these storms lining up and hitting California dead-on,” said Don Cameron, whose Terranova Ranch grows produce on 8,500 acres in the southern San Joaquin Valley. in the coastal hills, according to the Weather Service. They were the third and fourth deaths to be connected to the storm system. South of the capital, in a rural area of Sacramento County near the suburb of Elk Grove, the authorities on Wednesday recovered the bodies of at least two people who appeared to have died in last weekend’s flooding. At a neighborhood in the Bay Area city of Richmond, local officials worked on Wednesday to head off a landslide. “Hopefully they can get that plastic up there and keep enough water out of the hill to keep the slide from getting worse,” Mr. “We anticipate that this may be one of the most challenging and impactful series of storms to touch down in California in the last five years,” she said. “This storm has been upon us since New Year’s Eve, and we have hundreds of residents in this district that we are working to support that are displaced,” Ms. [were closed](https://twitter.com/SacRegionalPark/status/1610422120663613442), and conservationists said they were monitoring fire-damaged redwoods in the Santa Cruz Mountains because the strong wind gusts could topple trees. A succession of similar weather systems is expected to pound the state for the next several days.

Sacramento City Councilmember Katie Valenzuela released a list of locations across downtown where residents can shelter from the atmospheric river storm.