00:00Meanwhile, let's take you to Ojai, California with flood watches in effect.
00:04It's breezy. It's going to stay windy out there.
00:07And the rain is going to be the biggest story here.
00:09A quick look at radar shows that we are dealing with some showers up to the north of Eureka
00:14and rain pooling through Las Vegas right now.
00:17And again, it's kind of fragmented.
00:19But the overall footprint of this atmospheric river event is going to become much more organized,
00:24much more widespread, and it's going to really hammer the L.A. area tomorrow afternoon and evening.
00:29To the north, though, first, some of the slopes and the lower elevations, but of the mountains,
00:35so between maybe 1,500 feet and about 6,000 feet in elevation, we're looking at 8 to 12 inches of rain.
00:42If you get above 6,000 feet, you're getting into big-time snow,
00:45and flooding won't be the issue there. It'll be about the snow.
00:48But San Francisco, Sacramento, 2 to 4 inches of rain.
00:51Redding, California, 4 to 8 inches of rain. That'll be a big event.
00:54And farther south, L.A., you really get into it on Christmas Eve.
00:58Let's watch this fill in here.
01:00We have the starting block here with two chunks of rain, two different disturbances,
01:05but the atmospheric river picks up, and L.A. is going to see hour upon hour upon hour
01:09into Wednesday afternoon of heavy rain.
01:12So that will be a big danger.
01:14And we're looking at some widespread rain that builds back into San Francisco even
01:18with this separate zone of rain that kind of unfurls here.
01:23So the atmospheric river is coming in a few different phases,
01:26but the biggest hit is going to come tomorrow evening through tomorrow night and into Christmas Day.
01:31The south-facing slopes of the transverse ranges here, seeing 8 to 12 inches of snow
01:36and big time, or 8 to 12 inches of rain, I should say, 8 to 12 inches of rain,
01:40and big time snow, 8 to 12 feet of snow above 8,500 feet.
01:45Incredible snowfall if you're way, way up in the highest elevations of the Sierra.
01:49You're not there.
01:49You have to give a look.
01:50That is important.
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