California soaked in drenching rain and heavy snow

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AccuWeather California Expert Ken Clark analyzes the heavy rain and snow that's barreling over the Golden State as of Feb. 13, which could lead to road closures, flooding and landslides.

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00:00Ken, as we talked about, the rain would first come in the central and northern California,

00:06it is now beginning to shift south, but what a stormy morning we had in San Francisco.

00:13Lots of wind, lots of heavy rain, and more rain is to come out there. They're not going to be

00:17done once the front moves through. Concerned about thunderstorms and additional showers

00:22as we go through the afternoon, hours into the early evening. There's even a slight risk of

00:28some severe weather in parts of central California, and that we could be even talking about a brief

00:33funnel cloud or tornado, because there is some turning of the atmosphere, of the wind,

00:38the atmosphere. So we're not done with the rain there, but southern California, that's the next

00:44really on track here for mid to late afternoon and evening hours, this heavy band of rain moving

00:49through with the cold front, three to five hour period of moderate to heavy rain, and we're

00:54looking at a high risk, a high risk of life-threatening debris flows and mudslides in and near

01:01the recent burn areas. There's that rain band now, Future Radar, about three o'clock through Ventura

01:07County, about ready to get in to Los Angeles County, and you know, Ken, we've been talking

01:12about a half that rain amounts in that area, about a half inch to an inch of rain per hour,

01:17certainly possible, and when you do the math, that rain band's about what, about two to three hours

01:24or so as it shifts southward? It should be two to three, three to four, something like that,

01:29and you know, we're looking at, you know, like I said, high degree risk of mudslides and debris

01:36flows because of that rain coming down so hard, and it's going to be the absolute miserable commute

01:41this evening across LA. It's bad usually. This is going to be a horrendous commute because of the

01:47rain coming down. And of course, Ken, really quickly, snow, yeah, it's going to snow hard

01:54really quickly here, and I want to end with this, Ken, you brought this to my attention as well.

02:00Surf. This is a huge storm that developed out in the Pacific and moving inland,

02:05lots of wind with it, and that means there's going to be lots of waves, 20-foot breakers,

02:09very, very likely along the central coast from north to the Bay Area on southward,

02:14and we're looking at maybe some breakers in the 30 to 45 feet.

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