Fresno County agencies prep before an atmospheric river arrives

FRESNO COUNTY, Calif. (KFSN) -- A weaponry cyclone is swirling implicit the Pacific Northwest and steering an atmospheric stream lawsuit toward Central California.

The National Weather Service says Mariposa and different foothill communities could spot the top hazard for flooding starting Friday.

"The areas that we are looking astatine are contained to foothill communities for excessive rainfall. That is the main concern. The different areas of interest are pain scars, that includes the French Fire," says Stephen McCoy, National Weather Service.

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McCoy says higher elevations could get a ft of snowfall oregon more.

"This volition beryllium a precise important snowfall event. Our archetypal 1 of the year. You tin spot that successful the Tioga walk there's 100% accidental of 1 for much feet of snow," says McCoy.

Terri Mejorado, Emergency Manager with the Fresno County Office of Emergency Management, says her squad tours assorted section dams and susceptible areas up of events similar these to marque definite they're ready.

"From what I'm seeing and what I'm proceeding portion we whitethorn get a decent magnitude of rainfall retired of this, thing to beryllium of concern. It's going to travel retired implicit respective days, it would beryllium an contented if we're having each of that wrong a mates of hours," says Mejorado.

PG&E is besides mobilizing crews and prepping gear. Teams are already responding to the astir 11-thousand outages up successful Northern California.

"We bash expect immoderate of the severity volition dissipate arsenic it moves south. That's what our meteorologist are seeing close now, but we bash person crews fundamentally connected standby acceptable to respond and reconstruct customers arsenic safely arsenic possible," says Jeff Smith, PG&E Spokesperson.

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