(AP Photo/Noah Berger)Ībout 150 miles to the north, the California Highway Patrol closed a stretch of State Route 70 in Butte and Plumas counties because of multiple landslides within the massive Caldor Fire burn scar. Heavy rains blanketing Northern California created slide and flood hazards in land scorched during last summer’s wildfires. Rocks and vegetation cover Highway 70 following a landslide in the Dixie Fire zone on Sunday, Oct. The severe weather caused multiple trucks to blow over on over on the Richmond-San Rafael Bridge, NewsNation affiliate KRON reported. The Sacramento Office of Emergency Service tweeted “Remember – never drive through standing water! Turn around, don’t drown!” Sandbags were being handed out and evacuation centers were opened in Sacramento. The lower the pressure, the stronger the storm. “It’s an atmospheric river already moving through northern California,” he added, describing the storm as a “bomb cyclone,” an intense weather event in which the barometric pressure drops quickly. Up to 10 inches of rain was expected to wash over the West Coast, said meteorologist Marc Chenard of the Weather Prediction Center at the National Weather Service. The National Weather Service’s Sacramento office warned of “potentially historic rain,” with Sacramento County possibly receiving as much as a third of the county’s normal annual rainfall inside a 24 hour period. jMcrvTrEvv- Adam Epstein October 21, 2021 It drops at least 24 mb (a unit of pressure) in 24 hours. A bomb cyclone is simply a storm that gets very strong very quickly.
You might hear this term referencing the Sunday-Monday storm coming our way.