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Heavy Rain and Flash Flooding Concerns in California; Heavy Snow in the Sierra

An atmospheric river will bring heavy rainfall to lower elevations of California this week, and heavy snow to the Sierra Nevada mountains. Flash flooding, some of which may be locally considerable, will be a concern on the western foothills of the Sierra Nevada mountains through Tuesday. Landslides, rockfalls and mudslides are possible in the Southern California mountains. Read More >

FEMA Weather Emergency Alert outage

FEMA Weather Emergency Alert are temporarily unavailable (as of Friday morning). These are alerts that are sent to your cell phones when the National Weather Service issues Tornadoes, or Severe Thunderstorm Warnings for storms with winds over 80 mph and baseball sized hail or larger. For additional details on FEMA Weather Emergency Alerts... https://www.ready.gov/alerts

 

Have multiple ways to get warnings: NOAA Weather Radio, your local NWS webpage, TV, social media (NWS Aberdeen Twitter feed).