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A Flood Advisory is in effect until 11 pm tonight for portions of Placer, Sacramento, Yolo, and Sutter counties. Impacts include: local flooding of roadways, urban areas, small streams, and creeks.
The National Weather Service issued a flood watch for the Sacramento region ahead of another two storms making their way to Northern California. The watch — which means flooding is possible but ...
Periods of heavy rainfall caused by multiple atmospheric rivers in California between December 31, 2022, and March 25, 2023, resulted in floods that affected parts of Southern California, the California Central Coast, Northern California and Nevada. [3] [4] The flooding resulted in property damage [5] [6] [7] and at least 22 fatalities. [1]
The California Department of Water Resources's schematic map of the Yolo Bypass, 2009. Congress approved the Sacramento River Flood Control Project in 1911, with a plan to divert the water through multiple weirs and bypasses. The Yolo Bypass is one of two major bypasses in the Sacramento Valley that helps deter urban flooding. [5]
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Northern California saw its wettest winter in almost a century, breaking the record set in 1982–83. [6] The same storm systems also flooded parts of western Nevada and southern Oregon . The damage was estimated at $1.55 billion ($1,926,663,046 today [ 4 ] ), [ 3 ] including damage to California roads and highways estimated at more than $1.05 ...
A flood watch was in place through 4pm on Tuesday in the Los Angeles area, according to the National Weather Service.The risk of flooding remained “significant” to the city and surrounding ...
The 1997 California New Years Floods resulted from a series of winter storms, from December 26 to January 3 of 1997, fed with tropical moisture by an atmospheric river. It impacted Northern California, resulting in some of the most devastating flooding since the Great Flood of 1862 .