The rain, which isn’t expected to hit farther south than Santa Barbara, appears barely strong enough to qualify as an atmospheric river.īut officials caution the public to remain vigilant. One more storm system is forecast to roll through California on Wednesday, said California State Climatologist Mike Anderson, but it won’t pack as much of a punch as the previous ones. River levels are receding in some areas, top climate officials reported in a briefing Monday, and the worst of the rain appears to be over. Paradise with a price: John Laird’s long view of dealing with the aftermath of natural disasterĪs the skies begin to clear and a relentless series of atmospheric rivers starts to move out, Californians are finally catching a break as they assess the aftermath of weeks of downed trees, landslides and devastating flooding. He said that while it’s hard to say if this amount of rainfall is record-setting, the previous time this station measured that much precipitation in such a short period of time was in January 2017, when the Ben Lomond station measured 32.29 inches for the month. on Monday, that number had reached 51 inches - a 36-inch increase in just three weeks. National Weather Service meteorologist Brayden Murdock told Lookout that a remote automated weather station (RAWS) in Ben Lomond measured 15 inches of cumulative precipitation between Oct.

Meteorology experts are still digesting the impacts of the run of storms, and eye-popping rainfall totals are among them, Max Chun reports. For more information and to find your zone, click here. The oceanfront areas along Beach Drive, Las Olas Drive and Potbelly Beach Road in Aptos, meanwhile, were under an evacuation warning, with the sheriff’s office citing concerns over high tide impacts. The failure of a culvert near Whitehouse Canyon Drive and resulting threat to roadways had a small section in the far northwest part of the county still under an evacuation order. An area along the Pajaro River east of downtown Watsonville remained under an evacuation order, with the Santa Cruz County Sheriff’s Office citing continued concerns over possible flooding. With cleanup efforts continuing across the county, evacuation orders and warnings were mostly lifted.

Details on where and when weren’t yet available Monday morning, but Lookout will have continuing coverage. Those days, the White House announced late Monday, will include a visit to the Central Coast on Thursday from President Joe Biden. A sunny day lay ahead Tuesday for Santa Cruz County, and though another storm system was set to arrive Wednesday afternoon and evening, the forecast was mainly dry for at least the coming 10 days. “The risk has subsided at this time for certain zones that were previously under evacuation warning,” the agency wrote of a pair of areas along the Pajaro River east of downtown Watsonville, while also giving the all-clear for a zone in the far northwest part of the county where culvert failure had threatened roadways including Whitehouse Canyon Drive.Īn evacuation warning for roads between New Brighton and Seacliff state beaches was also lifted.įor more information and to find your zone, click here. The Santa Cruz County Sheriff’s Office lifted the remaining evacuation orders in two spots in the county. Much of the heavy rain is expected on Saturday and fortunately, the people KTVU spoke with say they are prepared as they can be to ride it out.Tuesday, Jan. 'You’re stuck, but Cal Trans has been really good about getting the tree out of the way because they know that you’re land locked up there,' said Mark Foster, who says he's lived in Boulder Creek for four years. When trees go down during heavy rain and windstorm, power lines can also be damaged, sometimes leaving people without power for days. We have a lot of battery-operated lights and both of places have wood-burning stoves so we can keep the heat,' Bella said.ĭowned trees are another concern for people living in the Santa Cruz mountains area. RELATED: Car wrecks pile up with next round of Bay Area stormsīella says she’s lived in the area for 40 years and knows exactly what she needs to ride out a storm. The water will run down and go across it…we had a slide a couple of years ago in that big rain, that just took out half of our road,' said resident Joni Bella. 'If it’s really big on our road, we have gutters we have to keep clear.

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