AccuWeather California Expert Ken Clark breaks down storms that will impact the region this weekend, which could bring beneficial rainfall for some parts of the state.
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00:00All you need is one big storm and then all of a sudden you can get a lot of rain but the pattern
00:05right now not really showing a lot of rain across California. Now we have really three storms on the
00:12map today and none of these storms look like they're going to be big rain or snow producers.
00:17There's going to be rain. It's beneficial rain for the most part. It is not going to cause a
00:21lot of problems. We have a lot of problems with the last rain about a week and a half or so ago
00:26with in southern California over the burn areas. I don't see any of these storms having any
00:30important threat for mud-sized debris flows so that's the good news. Yeah the first storm more
00:36of a cooler air and changing the wind flow instead of on offshore more onshore. It is the second
00:44storm Ken that well this may produce nothing more than a shower or two. Now the second storm
00:49at least some rain. Yeah I think we're looking at generally a quarter to three quarters of an
00:55inch of rain across central and northern California. A tenth to half an inch across
01:00southern California over the weekend into Monday. Most of it comes like Saturday night Sunday for
01:07northern California with scattered showers lingering Monday. Southern California mainly Sunday
01:12into part of Monday. So this is not a big deal. Snow in the higher elevations. Snow levels
01:18will be lowering. There will be maybe some past problems especially near Tahoe but there could
01:24be a little snow even then in through the grapevine area before this is all said and done.
01:28Ken let's talk about where we are this season here. I will show you this you know you can see
01:33that short-term drought across southern California. We've had you know the rain central in northern
01:39California has been fine but you know since the wet season started these numbers are pretty low
01:44in southern California. They are very low in fact you go even farther south only 18 percent of
01:50historical average to date in San Diego. They still haven't had very much rain down to San Diego
01:54but better off in Los Angeles they were a month ago but still well below the historical average.
01:59Northern California doing very well. Yeah and it's the same story with the snowpack Ken.
02:04Yep exactly the same. Very good snowpack across the north. Lower than normal across central and
02:09south especially the south. Gonna get some snow this weekend. It won't be a ton but maybe a foot
02:15or so in the higher elevations. Quickly let's take a look at this Ken your reaction to the
02:20reservoir levels. Reservoir levels are doing great. There's no concern at all. The major
02:28reservoirs are as much as 30 percent above historical average. There's a lot of water
02:34in those reservoirs in northern California. That's not going to change. AccuWeather expert
02:39California expert meteorologist Ken Clark. Again thanks for joining us on AccuWeather Early.