The National Weather Service on Wednesday warned that a “major storm” and “atmospheric river” will hit California on Wednesday and Thursday, bringing heavy rainfall and flooding.
Impacts include river floods, debris flows, and mudslides near “recent burn scar areas,” the agency said on its website. The storm will also produce heavy snow in the Sierra Nevada mountains.
This week, the National Weather Service office in San Francisco warned that the coming storm is “truly” a “brutal system” that should “be taken serious.” It added: “This will likely be one of the most impactful systems on a widespread scale that this meteorologist has seen in a long while.”…