"If you can stay home and off the roads today, please do. "We have already had several collisions this morning for vehicles hydroplaning, numerous trees falling, and several roadways that are experiencing flooding," the highway patrol's office in Oroville tweeted on Sunday. Officials urged residents to stay off the roads. "Some of our higher elevation locations could see 6, 7, 8 inches of rain before we're all said and done," weather service meteorologist Sean Miller said. The National Weather Service reported the atmospheric river storm will continue to produce multiple hours of heavy rainfall at least through the day.īy Sunday morning, Mount Tamalpais just north of San Francisco had recorded a half foot of rainfall during the previous 12 hours, the weather service said. The company said residents in the greater Bay Area with San Mateo, Santa Clara and Marin counties were the heaviest impacted by the storm and power outages.īy early Monday, Californians were not out of the woods. Sunday, power was restored for approximately 250,000 customers. The utility company, PG&E, reported that at the height of the storm approximately 380,000 customers lost power - about 7% of the utility's 5.5 million electric customers. The storm soaking the Bay Area on Sunday was tied as the third-strongest since 1950 on the Bay Area Storm Index, and the strongest in 26 years, according to the San Francisco Chronicle. SAN FRANCISCO - A powerful storm referred to as a "bomb cyclone" and "atmospheric river" walloped Northern California late Sunday into Monday morning, causing flooding, power outages and mudslides.ĭrenching showers and strong winds accompanied the weekend's arrival of the atmospheric river - a long and wide plume of moisture pulled in from the Pacific Ocean.
Heavy rains blanketing Northern California created slide and flood hazards in land scorched during last summer's wildfires. Caltrans maintenance supervisor Matt Martin walks by a landslide covering Highway 70 in the Dixie Fire zone Sunday in Plumas County, Calif.
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