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FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - Rain and dense winds swept crossed the San Joaquin Valley implicit the weekend.
David Spector with the National Weather Service successful Hanford said the tempest brought extended rainfall to parts of Fresno.
“This is the biggest tempest we've had to truly interaction our area, it looks similar since March of 2023," Spector explained. "It's been pulling up surges of heavy moisture and spreading them into California. We had 1 surge that was similar an atmospheric stream that came successful Friday nighttime and Saturday. It didn't deed america arsenic hard. We inactive had immoderate important rainfall, particularly from astir Fresno northward."
Jeff Smith with PG&E said that crews responded to intermittent outages implicit the weekend.
“We're inactive continuing to show with immoderate rainfall expected to proceed connected done this week," helium noted.
He said the institution plans up for large upwind events, to marque definite crews are prepared and acceptable to reconstruct power as rapidly arsenic possible.
"Sometimes that involves putting them connected a remainder play truthful that erstwhile the upwind comes successful aboriginal successful the week, crews tin enactment extended hours if request be. Often, you know, 24, 36 hours consecutive to respond to, you know, immoderate outages whitethorn hap arsenic a effect of the of the wintertime weather," Smith explained.
According to Spector, much bedewed upwind is expected to get aboriginal Monday. He said it is already causing immoderate unease among section governments.
He said, “The exigency managers are truly acrophobic astir imaginable flooding and evacuations. They remembered what happened 2 years ago. We had a precise progressive wintertime that twelvemonth and we had respective storms that produced precise dense precipitation, and we had wide flooding from immoderate of these storms, particularly the warmer ones. And this is simply a warmer storm.”
