"MENLO PARK — The west coast’s enormous atmospheric river stalled over Monterey County on Wednesday, triggering mudslides and threatening other areas even farther north, with the storm expected to swing southward Thursday, posing risks to parts of Southern California burned by last year’s wildfires.
Although the most torrential rains stalled over Monterey and Big Sur, weather forecasters say isolated but severe storms still threaten the area — and officials are maintaining evacuation orders throughout the region.
“We can expect some pretty robust showers ... tonight that could lay down rates that could meet our thresholds for flash flood warnings for the post-wildfire debris flows,” said Brian Garcia, a meteorologist at the National Weather Service, during a Santa Cruz County press conference, Wednesday."
Erin B. Logan and Susanne Rust report for the Los Angeles Times January 27, 2021.
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