'Atmospheric river' slams Northern California, kills 2 in Washington state

[Leroy N. Soetoro]

October 24, 2021 at 6:55 pm PDT

By Kelli Dugan, Cox Media Group National Content Desk
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — A potentially historic storm system roared ashore
Sunday in Northern California, prompting the National Weather Service in
Sacramento to urge anyone in the path of the “atmospheric river” to brace
for a “wild 24 to 36 hours.” At least two people died in Washington state
as the storm pushed across Puget Sound.

Update 9:35 p.m. EDT Oct. 24: At least two people have died as storms
associated with the “atmospheric river” pushing through California ravaged
Oregon and Washington state on Sunday.

Two people died after a tree fell on a car in Fall City, about 20 miles
east of Seattle, on Sunday afternoon, Eastside Fire and Rescue confirmed
to KIRO-TV.

The strong storm system, which has also caused power outages affecting
tens of thousands of people across the two states, is expected to continue
through Monday.


Original report: The long and wide plume of moisture, pulled in from the
Pacific Ocean and expected to move south over the next few days, was
accompanied by drenching rains and strong winds that toppled trees,
flooded highways and spawned mud flows in areas scorched by recent fires.


>>Click here for local coverage of the storm by KIRO7 in Seattle


According to The Washington Post, Sacramento last week recorded its first
0.01 inches of rain since March 19, but now sits poised to absorb more
than half a foot of flooding rains, following a 222-day drought.

>> Related: Heavy rains, high winds expected to pound California, Pacific
Northwest

Through mid-morning local time Sunday, more than 3.5 inches of rain had
fallen in Santa Rosa; both San Francisco and Oakland received nearly 2
inches; Sacramento recorded nearly 1.5 inches; and Mount Tamalpais, just
north of San Francisco, had already received more than half a foot of
rain, the Post reported.


In addition to the double-digit rainfall totals some northern California
locales are expected to receive, the Level 5 of 5 atmospheric river is
expected to dump as many as six feet of fresh mountain snow, the newspaper
reported.


Meanwhile, western Washingtonians monitored the system - which reached its
full strength Sunday morning about 500 miles off the coast of Astoria,
Oregon - as it underwent “bombogenesis,” a meteorological term for a very
rapidly strengthening area of low pressure, KIRO-TV reported.

“Some of our higher elevation locations could see 6, 7, 8 inches of rain
before we’re all said and done,” NWS meteorologist Sean Miller told The
Associated Press.


Meanwhile, multiple mudslides and debris flows within the massive Caldor
Fire burn scar forced the California Highway Patrol to close State Route
70 in Butte County, about 150 miles north of the Bay Area.


-- The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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