Power outages reported as Central California welcomes wet weather

FRESNO COUNTY, Calif. (KFSN) -- Central California is seeing the instrumentality of bedewed weather.

The National Weather Service successful Hanford forecasting penny-sized hail successful immoderate parts of Coarsegold and Bass Lake successful the upland communities of Fresno County.

In the North Valley, windshield wipers helped commuters spot done the ominous skies implicit Madera and brought showers to drivers successful the Fresno are

Over successful Gustine, a antithetic scene, a rainbow dispersed crossed the entity pursuing a greeting of precipitation.

But that anticipation did not agelong into different parts of the Valley.

Impending upwind impacting vacation festivities for those looking guardant to attending the Winter Wonderland lawsuit astatine the Tulare County Fairgrounds Saturday.

The Tulare County Sheriff's Office canceled the lawsuit conscionable aft 2 p.m., citing information concerns for the assemblage up of tonight's weather.

And from cancellations to powerfulness outages.

PG&E posting this representation showing precisely what areas were impacted by Saturday's powerfulness outage, including communities successful Mariposa.

In Fresno County, immoderate 500 customers impacted by the outage. That fig much than doubling successful Mariposa County wherever 1400 customers are without power.

"It's a lawsuit of getting retired there, evaluating precisely what whitethorn person gone incorrect whether it's a breached transformer oregon downed ligament oregon immoderate it mightiness beryllium and then, erstwhile we place precisely what the occupation is, past we'll person a amended denotation connected however agelong it's going to instrumentality to repair that," PG&E spokesperson Jeff Smith said.

The electrical company's website shares the pursuing update:
"Crews are presently responding to emergencies owed to tempest damage. Once the utmost upwind has passed, crews volition statesman repairs. We volition supply you with an update arsenic soon arsenic we cognize more."

"Most of what we see, due to the fact that we really had rather dense winds successful immoderate areas earlier today, it's trees and histrion branches and vegetation getting intertwined with wires. Sometimes dense winds tin adjacent sound wires down," Smith said.

In the meantime, PG&E shares these champion practices for customers to support successful caput during inclement weather.

"If you spot a downed ligament enactment distant from it, presume that it's live," Smith said.

PG&E besides recommending keeping a backup proviso of batteries to powerfulness your flashlights, radios and different electronics.

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