Atmospheric river to cause potential flooding problems in Southern California

Southern California is in desperate need of rain, but it could come far too fast this week, especially in areas recently burned by wildfires.

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00:00kind of mid to late week, depending on how you kind of classify Wednesday night. That's the start

00:04of this timeline for this atmospheric river event, and it's going to go through Friday morning,

00:09so really a good chunk of your week. Here's the overall what to expect as far as who's going to

00:14be impacted by rain, snow, and a little bit of a wintry mix. Let's talk about some of the impacts

00:18because it's an atmospheric river event, so that means heavy rain and heavy snowfall to the mountain

00:23regions. Places like Los Angeles, down into San Diego, up into San Francisco, that's where we

00:29could see some flooding, and especially we're watching LA because those recent wildfires,

00:34recent burn scar areas, those are areas where we're more likely to see some of that flooding

00:39and even landslides, so something we'll be keeping an eye on. But then even into the mountains where

00:43we get the heavy snow, we could see big travel impacts, even road closures at times, and the

00:49Sierra possibly, and even blizzard conditions are something we'll be watching as well. So let's go

00:55ahead and dive into this on future radar and how this plays out. As we set things into motion and

00:59go throughout Tuesday, we start to see that rain moving in, but this is not the rain that we're

01:04talking about flooding concerns. That comes later. You'll see this is kind of the precursor to the

01:09real storm that rolls in early Thursday morning, so 6 30 a.m. going into 7 8 a.m. around the time

01:16when people might be driving to work. That's when we're going to start to really see the heavier

01:20pockets of rain indicated by the, you know, yellows and oranges here, and even some of those

01:25darker green shades. We continue to see this play out and move further inland, but even Thursday

01:31evening, we're still seeing that rain into Los Angeles, into San Francisco, down towards San

01:36Diego as well. It's later that this really moves inland, and then ultimately that storm is going to

01:40go right across the country and end up being a weekend storm for the northeast. But back to the

01:46west coast. This is the area we're watching for that heavy rainfall, the most likely areas

01:51of some of that flooding and a quick look at your rain total. Some areas could even get 6 to 8 inches

01:56of rain.