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<\/a><\/p>\nPrepare Now for Significant Rain and Possible Flooding This Weekend-Early Next Week <\/p>\n
Impacts<\/strong> Forecast Confidence<\/strong> Timing and Strength<\/strong> Rivers and Streams <\/strong> Snow levels<\/strong> Winds<\/strong> Weather Summary<\/strong> Calaveras County, CA…Widespread Weather for Northern California is forecasted for the January 7, 2017 through January 10, 2017. The National Weather Service is predicting that Calaveras County will likely be impacted by this storm. The following information is from the National Weather Service: Prepare Now for Significant Rain and Possible Flooding This Weekend-Early Next Week […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1599,"featured_media":30955,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_cbd_carousel_blocks":"[]","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,20,1,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-communities","category-featured","category-news","category-weather","last_archivepost"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/nationalweatherservice.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30954","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1599"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30954"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30954\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/30955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n\u2022 Widespread flooding of urban areas, roadways, small streams, and main stem rivers
\n\u2022 Enhanced downstream river flooding from flood control releases on numerous Sierra reservoirs
\n\u2022 Mud and debris flows on burn scars from past 4 years
\n\u2022 Rock and mudslides on mountain roadways
\n\u2022 Downed trees and power outages from wind and saturated soils
\n\u2022 Mountain travel delays and chain controls Saturday and Monday<\/p>\n
\n\u2022 High
\n\u2022 Medium in timing\/amounts for additional storms past Monday<\/p>\n
\n\u2022 Precipitation begins Saturday morning and continues through Monday
\n\u2022 heaviest Sunday, tapering off Monday<\/p>\n
\n\u2022 rising water levels Sunday – next week
\n\u2022 some points reach flood stage by Sunday
\n\u2022 streams and creeks that are free-flowing (no dams) will bear close watching; we could see impacts in those areas unseen for several years. <\/p>\n
\n\u2022 begin ~3000 feet northern mountains and 4000 feet in the Sierra Saturday
\n\u2022 rise above 8000 feet Saturday night
\n\u2022 drop back below pass levels early Monday<\/p>\n
\n\u2022 Valley gusts 30-45 mph
\n\u2022 Mountain ridgetop gusts 45 to 60 mph
\nWet pattern continues past Monday
\n\u2022 Another potentially very wet storm system Tuesday-Wednesday, this time with lower snow levels. Continued flood threat.<\/p>\n
\nAn atmospheric river, narrow corridor of concentrate moisture, will take aim at California this weekend with heavy precipitation, high snow levels and soils that are already saturated from recent storms. Moderate precipitation starts Saturday (7th), but the brunt of storm will be Sunday, tapering off Monday. Majority of the precipitation will fall as rain in the mountains as snow levels rise above 8000 feet. This is going to be some of the more significant flooding we’ve seen in the past decade…areas may flood that haven’t seen impacts for several years. Use the break in the weather today and Friday to prepare. Additional storms are possible Tuesday into the following weekend. Keep in mind that flooding will take several days to recede in some areas after the rain stops.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"