California weather has calmed but the lull is expected to be brief
Downtown San Francisco had its wettest 10-day period since 1871 between Dec. 26 and Jan. 4 when 10.33 inches of rain fell. The all-time 10-day record was 14.37 inches in January 1862.state's mountains, where the snowpack supplies about a third of California's water supply.
The statewide snowpack was 191% of normal to date and 76% of the April 1 average, which is usually the peak, according to the California Department of Water Resources.that caused extensive flooding in Northern California's Sacramento County and four deaths was followed on Wednesday and Thursday by a"bomb cyclone," a shorthand reference to a storm intensified by a rapid plunge in air pressure through a process called bombogenesis.
National Weather Service meteorologist Warren Blier said the wind speed recorded on a Marin County hilltop was among the highest he could recall in a 25-year career.
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