The latest in a series of atmospheric river storms soaked California on Tuesday, bringing another deluge of rain to the already-saturated state, while a Nor'easter swirling over New York and New England prompted emergency orders and closed roads.
Up to 10 inches of rain was forecast in some areas of California, while up to 3 feet of fresh snow was expected to hit high-mountain elevations where snowdrifts already reach rooftops, according to the National Weather Service .
In anticipation of the "atmospheric river" — a current of air laden with dense tropical moisture from the Pacific —emergency crews filled sandbags and patrolled levees and riverbanks around the clock. Even as the 11th atmospheric river of the season soaked the region once more on Tuesday, emergency crews scrambled to patch the Parajo's earthen levee with rocks and fill. Some 21,000 people in the flood zone remained under evacuation orders or warnings, officials said.
Chenard said that at elevations higher than 5,000 feet, the snowpack absorbs rain like a sponge. But the real risk is at lower elevations where rain runs off the snow, melting much of it and bringing floods and mudslides.
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