As yet another atmospheric river barrels toward California, residents brace for the threat of engorged rivers and overtopped reservoirs.
counties have issued evacuation warnings for residents in their areas, warning of potentially serious flooding from the incoming storm.
The atmospheric river, which is gathering warm subtropical moisture coming up from Hawaii, will fall atop some of the. The Department of Water Resource’s third snow survey of the season, conducted Friday, found that statewide snowpack was 190% of normal — hovering just below the record set in the winter of 1982-83.
In 2017, heavy rainfall and erosion from floods damaged spillways at Oroville Dam, one of California’s largest reservoirs, andfrom a potential surge of overflowing water. Hill said there is no danger of such an event happening in the incoming storm as “Oroville has space to absorb these inflows that are forecast right now.”
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