Atmospheric river hits Southern California with risks of flash floods in fire-ravaged areas, coast

LOS ANGELES (AP) — An unusually beardown tempest strategy called an atmospheric stream was dousing Southern California connected Saturday, prompting flood warnings successful areas of coastal Los Angeles County that precocious were ravaged by wildfire.

The National Weather Service successful Los Angles and Oxnard reported dense rainfall Saturday astatine rates arsenic dense arsenic an inch (2.5 centimeters) per hr successful coastal areas that are prone to flash flooding.

On Friday, much than 4 inches of rainfall fell implicit coastal Santa Barbara County arsenic the tempest approached Los Angeles, arsenic the National Weather Service urged radical to enactment indoors amid dense winds.

The agelong plume of tropical moisture that formed implicit the Pacific Ocean began drenching the San Francisco Bay Area connected Wednesday and unleashed wide rainfall implicit Southern California connected Friday and Saturday. More than a ft of snowfall was predicted for parts of the Sierra Nevada.

Flood warnings extended from the Ventura County coast, done Malibu and into the City of Los Angeles.

“Due to the imaginable for debris flows, an Evacuation Warning remains successful effect wrong and astir each caller pain scar areas, and prime susceptible properties stay nether Evacuation Orders,” Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass said successful a Saturday-morning societal media station connected X.

Evacuation orders, which are mandatory, were issued for circumstantial high-risk properties successful the Palisades and Eaton occurrence pain areas from Friday evening to Sunday morning. Law enforcement unit were going to prime properties successful those areas to impulse radical to leave, Bass indicated.

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