Flood watch notices were posted across northern and central California for Thursday ahead of an atmospheric river storm expected to douse much of the state with heavy rain, including mountain areas still buried from a near-record snowfall.
Elsewhere, the NWS issued "prepare now" alerts for residents along the Big Sur, Carmel, Salinas and Pajaro rivers.
"Most of the flooding concerns are for the lower-lying areas susceptible to rapid river and stream rises," said William Churchill, a meteorologist for the NWS Weather Prediction Center. "It's really a combination of all this heavy rainfall coming and also rapidly melting snow." Where possible, mountain residents were urged to shovel off some of the snow that had accumulated on their roofs before the next storm arrived.
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