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Average weather santa cruz ca4/17/2023 ![]() ![]() While the next round of rain may not be as strong as what the state has already received, he added, “because of the cumulative impact, we are still in a situation where things can get dangerous quickly”. “It has really been a weather whiplash all throughout the season,” said Brian Ferguson, a deputy director for California governor’s office of emergency services, adding that years of drought followed by so much precipitation put extra pressure on state systems. Wildfire burn scars left sparsely vegetated slopes vulnerable to slides. The dramatic swing from devastating dryness to drenched has compounded the effects of the storms, as drought-weakened trees were easily pummeled by thrashing winds kicked up during the storms, and punched trees through windows, across roads, and into power lines, leaving thousands in the dark. Officials have not yet determined the extent of the winter storms’ damage overall, but dozens are believed to have lost their lives as a result of the severe weather since the start of the year. Meanwhile, mountain towns tucked along the Sierra Nevada range spent weeks socked-in by the snow that buried homes and businesses and left mounds as high as buildings. Photograph: Mario Tama/Getty Images Below: A snowbank piled up from multiple snowstorms in Mammoth Lakes, California. Top: A house is left hanging from a cliff after a landslide in Orange county, California. Sinkholes opened in streets across the state since the storms began, swallowing cars and adding to travel headaches exacerbated by winter weather closures, flooded roadways and thoroughfares clogged with mud. Some may have nothing to return to.ĭown the coast, the rains chewed into mushy hillsides that line the coast in Orange county, prompting evacuations as homes dangled precariously over the bluffs that gave way behind them. Hundreds of displaced residents who had to escape the rushing waters before dawn last Saturday remain in shelters scattered throughout the region. Repairs in the breached levee that left the town of Pajaro submerged are ongoing as crews work to fill holes with stones and sand. ![]() “It is also going to hamper ongoing relief efforts.”įorty of California’s 58 counties remain under emergency declarations and with little time to spare before the next dousing, officials and residents across the state rushed to secure saturated hillsides and inundated infrastructure, and clear strewn debris and downed trees left behind by the last storm. “ is going to exacerbate things further with the flooding and the other impacts going on unfortunately,” said Jon Gottschalck, who heads the operational prediction branch of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (Noaa) climate prediction center, noting that more heavy rainfall and higher elevation snowfall is in the forecast. ![]()
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