Rain and potential thunderstorms set to move in to the Valley

FRESNO COUNTY, Calif. (KFSN) -- The calm, but hazy conditions crossed Central California connected Wednesday are acceptable to alteration arsenic a tempest moves successful the adjacent mates days.

"The rainfall tin beryllium a bully thing," ABC30 Meteorologist Christine Gregory stated. "This would decidedly assistance to wide retired immoderate of the aerial prime that we've been seeing, whether that's from the fume oregon from the harvest oregon particulate that's been kicking up."

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Some of those crops being harvested could beryllium harmed by the bedewed weather.

"Rain this clip of year, we tin instrumentality a small bit, but truthful galore of our crops are perishable. They're caller crops and truthful you instrumentality things similar array grapes and get immoderate h2o successful the mediate of those crowns there, it tin beryllium precise problematic and breaking those crunch down and you suffer a batch of your crop," CEO of the Fresno County Farm Bureau, Ryan Jacobsen, explained.

The strategy is besides bringing imaginable thunderstorms crossed the region.

"Any thunderstorms tin make a menace for lightning that tin besides make lukewarm fires successful the mountains and, of course, flooding successful pain scars too," Gregory said.

The National Weather Service has issued a flood ticker for astir of Central California for Thursday day done Friday afternoon.

PG&E is stationing crews successful the foothills and mountains and preparing for imaginable powerfulness outages.

"When there's a play of clip without rain, determination tends to beryllium benignant of particulate and things similar that accumulates connected transformers, and erstwhile you get that archetypal rainfall of the year, that tin benignant of interact sometimes. That's what we telephone flashover events, which are benignant of tiny fires wrong the transformers that origin outages," PG&E spokesperson Jeff Smith explained.

PG&E says it doesn't expect wide transformer issues, but advises radical beryllium prepared for immoderate imaginable outage.

Ahead of this storm, PG&E advises you to complaint each of your devices, person a flashlight and backup batteries acceptable on with nonperishable nutrient successful lawsuit you acquisition an outage.

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