California, rain and flash floods
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Torrential rains inundated the California coast on Christmas Eve, sparking numerous flash flood and even short-lived tornado warnings, turning roads into rivers and sending debris cascading down hillsides.
NWS flood alerts span large portions of California on Friday after an atmospheric river system hit the area over Christmas.
In San Mateo County, streets in Daly City and Broadmoor were lined with car after car, dozens of them totaled, from a Christmas morning flash flood.
The latest round of precipitation in California is causing a continued flash flooding threat for the state, especially over burn scars from recent fires such as the Eaton and Palisades fires. Major cities at risk from flash flooding include Los Angeles,
Los Angeles County is under a flash flood warning which was released by the National Weather Service on Friday at 3:38 a.m. The warning is in effect until noon.
A flash flood warning was issued Wednesday afternoon for parts of Sacramento and Yolo counties, with forecasters warning of potential dangerous flooding through 7:30 p.m., according to the National Weather Service Sacramento office.
A flash flood warning was issued by the National Weather Service in Los Angeles-Oxnard at 1:09 a.m. on Friday, Dec. 26.
Downpours were spawned by the region's latest atmospheric storm, a vast airborne current of dense moisture siphoned from the Pacific.
Sunny days are ahead after an unusually wet Christmas in Los Angeles that saw three inches of rain in Downtown.
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