Storm-ravaged California faces fresh flood threat as new atmospheric river brings heavy rain, snow
that lashed the state with heavy rains and snow, and which have continued to impact communities well after they dissipated. And forecasters warn more atmospheric rivers are on the way.
Newsom has added 21 additional counties to California's state of emergency in response to the ongoing storms.This winter storm "will produce copious amounts of heavy snow to the high terrain of northern and central California and significant rainfall and flood threats across much of California, as well as into far western Nevada," the NWS warns. The Sierra Nevada region was at high risk of excessive rainfall Friday.
The latest storm has arrived as communities in the San Bernardino Mountains are still reeling from earlier snowstorms that have killed at least 12 people since Feb.
The canopy over pumps at a gas station in South Lake Tahoe fell and caught fire as rains and snow began to fall in the area,
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