Another series of atmospheric river-enhanced storms is set to soak California as the new year begins, bringing a flood threat back to the state just days after a destructive Christmas-week storm left rivers high and soils waterlogged.
The midweek storm lacks the extreme ingredients of last week’s flooding, but it arrives in a state already pushed to its limits. With little room for additional water, rainfall rates rather than totals will determine where problems emerge as California rings in the new year under another active weather pattern.
The first low-pressure system is expected to reach Southern California late New Year’s Eve, then spread north through much of the state into New Year’s Day. The…
