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Rain and snow impact California, West Coast
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3/17/2025
AccuWeather's California Expert Ken Clark explains the incoming storm to California on March 17, as well as additional storms forecast for later in the week.
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Joining me right now is our California expert with over 40 years of experience here at Accuweather
00:07
It's of course Ken Clark joining us live from Rancho Cucamonga here this morning Ken
00:13
We've been talking about this storm coming in the California today
00:18
But there's two other storms that we're tracking you could see them in the Pacific Ken
00:22
But like each one of these storms are a little farther north
00:27
Than their predecessor coming into California today
00:31
That's correct. The one we spent later Wednesday into Wednesday night
00:34
Maybe ending early Thursday morning will be a certainly a lighter event than today's a storm
00:40
Still give you a little bit of rain and snow to northern, California, especially the northern third
00:45
Let's say maybe is six to twelve inches of snow in the northern and central Sierra
00:49
Not a big storm a little bit of impact
00:52
But not a big storm the last week late in the week storm is it's meant to be even weaker
00:58
Won't get as far south as a Bay Area and they only clip northernmost, California
01:03
You know Ken so far this winter again the December and January was just so dry across Southern, California
01:10
That we got way behind on the rainfall here
01:14
And when you look at the drought monitor, and this is more of a short-term problem, you know
01:19
Virtually no problems in general in Northern, California
01:22
How would you describe it for Southern, California?
01:27
It was a dire need of rain
01:30
Through January October through January saw two to five percent normal rainfall
01:36
So what we've done since then we really picked things up. It was very very dry to start
01:41
We've picked up a quite a bit of rain over the last
01:44
Month and a half or so and that's the good news
01:47
We've got lots of water right now things are green across
01:51
California the fire danger is low at this point and probably will stay that way for a while
01:55
So this is greatly improved the storms have greatly improved conditions in Southern, California
02:01
Speaking about improvements can we were running way below normal in the central and southern Sierra as far as the snowfall
02:09
Grabbed up here Ken is the Sierra
02:12
Central Sierra snow lab at Soda Springs now going into this storm. So this is from yesterday morning to
02:20
291 point three four inches of snow the normal going into this storm was about
02:26
301 and I I think we've easily picked up a foot of snow here in the last 24 hours
02:32
That's correct and
02:34
South of there, you know
02:35
This the storm lab is is on the northern edge of the central Sierra as the way they calculate things
02:42
Most of the central and southern Sierra were anywhere between 50 and 60
02:47
average by
02:48
Late January now, we're in the mid 80s in those areas
02:52
Yeah, great improved the snow back across the central and southern Sierra nor this year never had a problem
02:58
So we are looking really good right now at the snow pack heading into the last part of March
03:05
Ken in about 30 seconds another key contributor
03:08
Why every a lot of people are talking about a drought in Southern, California a drought in Southern, California
03:12
You've been very consistent with this message that there was not a water shortage in Southern, California
03:20
Absolutely, not all the major reservoirs are chock-full of water at this point
03:26
If we're gonna end the season with good amounts of snow in this Sierra, I think we're looking good throughout the summer
03:32
We're that we have no water shortage in, California
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