Storm updates: Calif.'s Central Coast at 'high risk for flooding'

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Storm updates: Calif.'s Central Coast at 'high risk for flooding'
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Get the latest information on the atmospheric river delivering a potent mix of rain and wind to California.

The new version of the excessive rainfall outlook was issued as a potentmoved into California; the moisture-packed system is expected to dump copious amounts of rain into Friday and Saturday — and the coastline between Salinas and San Luis Obispo is expected to get hit especially hard.

Behringer said it’s unusual for any region to be put in the high-risk category, and since 2016, the state has on average announced one high-risk warning a year. On the Central Coast, specifically, one very small portion of the region was considered high risk during a storm event in 2021. “Other than that, [the area has] not had one since 2010,” Behringer said. “It’s unusual.”

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