AccuWeather California Expert Ken Clark says several storms are in store for California over the next few days that will provide rain and snow across the region.
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00:00When you look at the satellite picture in the Pacific, the storms are all lined up for California.
00:08Yeah, this is a storm train like, what to call it, with three storms on the map.
00:14There's another one behind that on the other side of the globe that will come in too.
00:18So we have a series of storms coming in. That means rain and snow for California,
00:23which is never a bad thing unless it comes too quickly.
00:26Now, not a big storm for Southern California today, Ken.
00:30No, not a big storm. It's going to produce episodic rainfall.
00:33That's episodes of rain. It won't be raining all the time everywhere,
00:37but there'll be rain around all throughout the day today.
00:40Maybe a half inch or a little bit greater down towards San Diego.
00:44A quarter inch, maybe a half inch around the LA area.
00:47Again, not a lot of rain. Won't affect the burn areas at all, but some beneficial rains.
00:53Let's talk about the next storm. This is more widespread, Ken,
00:56beginning Wednesday, Tuesday night into Wednesday in Northern and Central California.
01:01Yes, this is going to be a much more impactful storm.
01:05Heavy rain with the cold front as it moves through, maybe a thunderstorm too.
01:09Heavy amounts of rain in short periods of time.
01:11Very heavy snow in the Sierra. Sierra's going to be shut down, no doubt about it.
01:15Roads through the Sierra will be shut down with this.
01:18Lizard-like conditions at times. Strong winds ahead of the front and right behind the front.
01:22So we got the awe with this second storm coming in.
01:25One to two inches of rain generally across California, as much as four or five inches in some spots.
01:31And snowfalls three to five feet in the Sierra.
01:34All right, Ken. And then beyond that, we talked about another storm coming in on Friday
01:39that we think by the time we get into Monday, there could be several feet up above 7,000 feet.
01:44This is all good news for the Sierra as we've been making up for lost time.
01:51We have been. It was back in the beginning of January.
01:54We were down in the 30 and 40 percent area for historical average for Central and Southern Sierra.
02:00We're now up in the mid-70s. We're going to be even higher than that before these storms are done.
02:04Again, we have another storm due on Friday, another storm due on Sunday, Monday.
02:10So we're going to really pack in the snow in the Sierra,
02:12and that means more water for those reservoirs as we go into the spring and summer.
02:18Yeah, really quickly, those reservoirs are stacked, Ken.
02:21This is good news. Short-term drought, but not much of a water shortage for California.
02:26That's great news.