OK. Where we are in the moment and
I'll get to your daily forecast,
but I just want to everyone to
understand how this is all working.
This is how we protect
the city of Sacramento,
really the whole valley from flooding.
We have two major rivers that all come
together very close to Sacramento.
The Sacramento River,
the the far north of this is
the Shasta Reservoir and then
we've got the Feather River.
At the top of that is the Oroville Reservoir.
Those still have room and that's
what's saving us right now.
But when they all come together,
it gets very tight as it all
dumps into the Sacramento.
Never just north of town is a very
old flood protection apparatus.
It's called the Sacramento rear.
It was built in 1916,
but since it was built,
the city has not flooded their
gates that they manually opened,
and that may happen later on today.
If they do that,
it will bleed a lot of water
out of the Sack river and dump
it into the yellow bypass,
relieving all of the pressure for
the rest of the Sacramento River that
winds its way through lots of twists
and turns all the way through town.
The whole goal is to dump the water.
Into the bypass,
which is a natural floodplain,
instead of allowing all of that
water to potentially break the
levee and flood Sacramento,
which it has before the bypass
and before the wear, many,
many times through the years.
So that's really what we're looking at.
One of the benchmark things that
everybody's looking at is what is the
water level at the I Street bridge right now,
it is at 26 1/2 feet.
The forecasted Crest,
which is Tuesday at 2:00 PM, is 28.2.
I've seen it as high as 32 feet,
which would be a new record.
It's actually.
Forecast it down.
This is all good news.
By the way,
flood stage is not till 33 1/2 feet.
So we're watching it very closely.
We could get to 28,
we could be higher,
we could be lower.
The thing that is saving us right now is that
there is still room in Shasta and Oroville.
If those have to go into full
flood protection mode and they're
dumping water into the either the
feather or the Sacramento River,
then we're in trouble.
Trinity, by the way, has space as well,
but that dumps out to the ocean.
Millerton and Folsom are in
full flood protection right now.
They are releasing water
because there is more.
Coming in, as I will show you,
by the way, everybody's above average,
even these far northern sections,
Redding, Shasta, even Eureka,
which has been below average,
they are now above average.
And we've got more coming in.
By the way,
what really caused all the
problems for trees coming down
was this line right here.
This was in the middle of the night
between Saturday and early Sunday morning.
That's where the wind gusts came in, 60 mph.
So you have to watch some of those lines of
very heavy rain and also very strong winds.
Then we saw all of the clearing.
It was a tough day of cleanup.
Yesterday, and this is
where we are in the moment.
We've got steady heavy rain.
We also have some strong winds.
Heavy Snow will continue for a
while and this is just a straight
up classic strong atmospheric river.
You've got your area of low pressure,
plenty of moisture going all the way down to
subtropics and this is a California storm,
northern, central, Southern California,
all getting nailed at the same time.
So this is, this is good for water.
But folks, there's a lot of things that
we are doing at the moment to prevent.
Widespread flooding.
Even with that said localized stream
Creek and otherwise smaller river
flooding like the Cassimus River,
you still need to pay attention.
The water is rising,
the water tables right at the top,
so any additional rain you're
going to see some problems.
The snow is also something that will
continue for the next couple of days.
So this is where we are in the moment.
Rain for everybody above 4 to 5000 feet,
snow for everybody along with
strong winds for all elevations.
This does not continue all day long.
We are going to get.
A very needed break later on this afternoon.
That's what this is right here.
And then we're going to start to
see things wind up again tomorrow.
This is more rain,
this is more snow and also thunderstorms.
It'll be a little bit more spotty,
but we have day two of this
arriving early tomorrow morning.
The strongest winds are happening right now
of this system gusts up to 40 to 50 mph,
even a little bit stronger
through the middle of the valley.
Then we Fast forward to later on
this afternoon and the stronger
winds do start to move up the hill,
so if you're in some of the lower foothills.
You still have to pay attention to
what's coming your way along with
some of the mountain tops and then
we'll start to see the wind die down.
We've got a couple more days of this,
but today, if you're planning,
we've got rain this morning, heavy at times.
It will clear up later on this
afternoon and then it's all coming
back early tomorrow morning.
Let me show you that one more time.
Here again, steady Valley rain, Sierra Snow,
it will break up this afternoon.
And then what I showed you is off
the coast that's coming in early
tomorrow with more rain,
more snow and thunderstorms as well.