Sacramento Weather

Ahead of strong winds from another storm sweeping through Northern California, some schools are making the decision to be closed Monday.

Raging winds from the third winter storm in a week triggered widespread outages Sunday for nearly 350,000 homes and businesses in Sacramento County ...

“Customers are encouraged to report outages at smud.org/Outages where they can quickly and easily monitor the cause of the outage and see when power will be restored.” The hardest-hit areas of the outage included the county’s northern suburbs: Over 45,000 were out in Arden Arcade, more than 16,000 in the dark in North Highlands and roughly 50,000 customers disconnected in Rio Linda and Elverta. We have crews assessing reported outages and will begin working to get power restored as soon as possible.” Berkan, 84, said he discovered the damage after his wife heard the storm winds and came out to look. Along American River Drive, Derrick Sindayen was in his front yard in shorts and a jacket as the rain continued to fall around 7:30 a.m. Fallen trees could be seen throughout the area, and there was no sign of electricity to any of the homes or businesses nearby. Winds from the south between 25 and 40 mph are expected to gust as high as 65 mph, the weather service said. During the first storm, three people — Steven Sampson, 45, of McAlester, Oklahoma; Mei Keng Lam, 57 of San Leandro; and Katherine Martinez, 61, of Orland — were killed after becoming stranded in floodwaters in south Sacramento County, and a 72-year-old man was killed by a falling tree in Santa Cruz. The tree was marked off early Sunday by road flares and barriers. “Crews made steady progress throughout the day Sunday to assess damage, make repairs and restore power,” SMUD officials said. “As we continue to experience extreme weather events, we’d like to remind our community of the appropriate contact information for incidents you may experience,” police said in a statement around 9 a.m. “We suffered extensive damages from the really, really high winds, the rain and fallen trees.”

SACRAMENTO - Northern California residents are bracing for more rain and wind as communities pause during widespread storm cleanup from back-to-back winter ...

"I can only do so much," said Matthew Pederson of Artisan Tree Service. "I don't want to do more damage to the roof, so we're going to have to wait for a crane." "To see a big tree like this and this right here and leaning on the house - I would never think I'd see anything like this," said Christopher Tolbert.