Is California ready for these storms? (Santa Ana, Nice: moving, cars, areas)

[CaliforniaGal]

Damage in the foothills- canyons. It's been raining pretty steady. Our backyard is pretty saturated. Going to have a mess to clean up once the rain stops. We are just south of LAX and 3 miles from the ocean.

I feel for the folks who have had a lot of damage.

[JGC97]

That wind must have been really something in the Sacramento area. Lots of trees down and homeowners having deal with it. I feel their pain. A neighbor's tree fell on my house during the storm in 2021. It was not fun cleaning that up. Here's a story from KCRA. https://www.kcra.com/article/sacrame...anies/46655544

[rodentraiser]

So here in the PNW, Seattle has a lot of hills like San Francisco. Whenever it snows, people, cars, and buses slide down the hills there and to see this, you need to go to YouTube and do a search for Seattle snow. It's hysterical. As one person taping all this said, "Who needs Netflix when you can just look out the window?"

Anyway, the rest of the area isn't so great at driving in snow, either.

So there was a video on YouTube about the storms coming into California and of course, people just couldn't resist all the snide comments. One person posted that he was "laughing in Seattle" and that "people in California couldn't drive if there was a spec of snow."

So naturally, I had to post and let everyone know this person living in Seattle probably also couldn't drive in a spec of snow and told everyone to look for the videos of drivers in Seattle when it snowed.

Yeah, guys, had to stick up for my old home state. You're welcome.

[CA4Now]

The National Weather Service's forecast for four days of rain was largely accurate.

Typically, it’s the San Gabriel Mountains that get the most rain in our storms, and it’s rarer for places such as the Santa Monica Mountains and Hollywood Hills to get that much rain. But the weather service accurately warned of the “potentially historic” nature of the storm across the entire region and the risk of swift moving flows of mud, rocks and other debris.

...the storm setup for Southern California starting Sunday — while rare — has been seen before by the National Weather Service meteorologists in Oxnard, helping to narrow down the prediction.

Exactly as anticipated, the core of the low pressure system fueling California’s storm stalled along the coast just off San Francisco. The standard sea level pressure globally is about 1,013 millibars; “usually, when you get just below 1,000 millibars or so is when you start to have a more impactful storm,” and this time, the central pressure got down to 978 millibars, said Dalton Behringer, a National Weather Service meteorologist for the Monterey office.

“It’s just a lot stronger than we normally see,” Behringer said.

https://www.latimes.com/california/s...storm-forecast

[JGC97]

Parts of the upper northern area of California saw some tornado activity today. Mark Finan had Doppler Radar on the screen and showed where it was concentrated. North of Oroville, south of Paradise in the Berry Creek area.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rln1kwHpSpM

[BOORGONG]

Originally Posted by rodentraiser

So here in the PNW, Seattle has a lot of hills like San Francisco. Whenever it snows, people, cars, and buses slide down the hills there and to see this, you need to go to YouTube and do a search for Seattle snow. It's hysterical. As one person taping all this said, "Who needs Netflix when you can just look out the window?"

Anyway, the rest of the area isn't so great at driving in snow, either.

So there was a video on YouTube about the storms coming into California and of course, people just couldn't resist all the snide comments. One person posted that he was "laughing in Seattle" and that "people in California couldn't drive if there was a spec of snow."

So naturally, I had to post and let everyone know this person living in Seattle probably also couldn't drive in a spec of snow and told everyone to look for the videos of drivers in Seattle when it snowed.

Yeah, guys, had to stick up for my old home state. You're welcome.

Here’s one from 7 years ago on a hilly street in Montreal’s downtown. The salt truck was late to the parade, and sort of was the cherry on the sundae of that pile-up.

Now, mind you, the city does a pretty good job of clearing the snow most of the time, but sliding is something even winter tires can’t always prevent in certain conditions.

https://youtu.be/rtF_UiwPRYo?si=OUkDiuEt0Aagjtfd

[JGC97]

Major storm heading for the state this weekend. Expected to get at least seven feet of snow in the Sierra (in a 72-hr span of time) and plenty of rain in various parts of the state. High winds too.

[Preair]

Originally Posted by CA4Now

Be careful out there.

California braces for flooding and mountain snow from pair of storms
A wind gust of 70 mph was recorded north of San Francisco, and the state activated its emergency operations center as two "atmospheric river" events were set to hit:
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/weather...ins-rcna136487

"As a series of major winter storms sweep over the West Coast this week, anxious Californians are looking back at the flash floods and the “thousand-year” deluge that shocked San Diego a week ago, and Oxnard a few weeks earlier, wondering what’s in store.

Starting Tuesday night, and then again on Sunday, two “atmospheric river” systems will bring high winds and heavy rain to Northern California, along with at least two feet of snow in the Sierra, followed by moderate to heavy rains in Central and Southern California, with a real risk of local flooding. And there are still at least two months of our wet season to go."

https://www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...lood-rain-snow

Floods damaged farmland, streets, and houses. Various biological communities change their habitats due to floods, breaking the original ecological balance. Floods inundate toilets and cesspools, and a large number of plant and animal carcasses are rotted, causing mosquitoes and flies to breed and various pests to gather.

[CA4Now]

Originally Posted by JGC97

Major storm heading for the state this weekend. Expected to get at least seven feet of snow in the Sierra (in a 72-hr span of time) and plenty of rain in various parts of the state. High winds too.

Be safe up there. Have they ever closed down Yosemite before?

[JGC97]

Originally Posted by CA4Now

Be safe up there. Have they ever closed down Yosemite before?

Good morning Yes. Yosemite closes regularly during the winter when this much snow falls. Even if it didn't, roads leading in will be closed, preventing access. Last year, right about this time, we had a storm that dumped 15 feet. Remember? I think there's a thread around here that covered that one.
Here's a link to the live cam showing Yosemite Falls and another showing Half Dome. Beautiful. https://www.nps.gov/yose/learn/photo...C-1E99070F6DE4