California finally received some of the bad weather most of the rest of the country has been living in for the past few months. Coming from the Pacific Ocean, the storm brought heavy rains on Friday and early Saturday however will not ease the drought the state is currently going through.
With the state water supply currently just at 44 percent of average it is not probable that the state will reach its normal water supplies by the end of the rainy season in April according to the New York Times.
Although the storm is not expected to take California out of its drought, it has brought some of the highest rainfall totals to the Los Angeles area in years. Downtown Los Angeles received more than two inches in rain for the first time in almost three years – doubling the city’s total for the rainy season that began last July. Cities farther north, San Francisco and San Jose received over an inch of rain Friday reported The Desert Sun.
Throughout California snow began to fall on the Sierra Nevada’s while the enormous amount of rain threatening flash flood warnings, mudslides, and coast flood warnings. Additionally power outages and traffic crashes were a result of the rain.