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Bomb Cyclone and ‘Atmospheric River’ Pummel California With Rain and Wind - The New York Times
Oct 24, 2021 1 min, 17 secs
Much of the Bay Area was under a flash flood watch on Sunday, with the National Weather Service warning of the potential for mudslides across the region.

The National Weather Service warned that the rainfall could cause mudslides, especially in areas scorched by wildfires.

From Marin County to the area just south of Big Sur along the Pacific Coast, flash flood watches were in effect until late Sunday night and, in some areas, early Monday morning, including parts of the San Francisco Peninsula.

The system is so vast that it was expected to reach southern British Columbia on Monday, where it was set to bring rain and strong winds, according to the National Weather Service in Seattle and Tacoma, Wash.

The California Governor’s Office of Emergency Services said on Twitter early Sunday that it was monitoring burn scars in Kern, Santa Cruz and El Dorado Counties.

“Excessive rainfall” over El Dorado County’s burn scar, which was caused by the Caldor fire, could cause life-threatening flash floods, the National Weather Service in Sacramento said on Sunday morning.

local time on Sunday, at least 130,000 utility customers in the Bay Area had lost power, said J.D.

“The atmospheric river is aiming a fire hose, if you will, into our area,” Sean Miller, a meteorologist for the Weather Service in Monterey, Calif., the forecast office for the Bay Area, said on Sunday.

The California Highway Patrol in Truckee, north of Lake Tahoe, said on Twitter on Sunday afternoon that rocks and water had fallen down a mountainside, blocking a road.

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