Man pulled from California river; storm moves in

After Sunday, there is no rain in the near-term forecast.

The winter storm that moved across California on Sunday brought powerful winds, heavy rain and snow, authorities said.

A flash flood warning was issued for foothill neighbourhoods below areas hit by wildfires, triggering fears of possible mudslides.

“There will be some clouds over the mountains tomorrow”.

Today’s highs in the Antelope Valley will be around 10 degrees higher than they’ve been.

Our area will wind up in the storm’s warm sector the whole way.

The National Weather Service said that the system is anticipated to drop approximately 1 inch rain in San Diego, early February 1.

Another rain storm was expected in the San Francisco Bay Area by Sunday evening.

The storm, she said, approached the area from the northwest.

Recent storms fed by the El Nino warming phenomenon in the eastern Pacific have boosted the Sierra Nevada snowpack to 115 percent of normal – more than the drought-stricken state has seen in five years. As many as 41,000 Los Angeles Department of Water and Power customers were without power in areas such as Hollywood, Westlake, Mid-City and Mid-Wilshire. Motorists also reported falling boulders about a mile past the Big Bear Dam on Highway 18.

Authorities say a motorist was fatally struck by a large oak tree that fell onto a moving vehicle in Southern California.

Across Southern California, hundreds of work crews scrambled to try to restore power to more than 150,000 people who lost electricity in the storm. “We’re a little bit behind where we should be, but it’s still a possibility that we’ll get some big rain events”.

The storm will generate gusty winds, and temperatures will be in the high 50s and low 60s, he said. San Diego Gas & Electric tells The Weather Channel that as of 4:20 p.m.at least 40,711 customers were without power due to 37 weather-related active primary outages. The weather condition is anticipated to turn colder and will lead to the production of several inches of snow in the region’s highest mountain tops.

Winds knocked over more than a dozen trees across the area, damaging homes and blocking roads – including a section of Interstate 5 in Oceanside, Calif., The San Diego Union-Tribune reported.