Storm brings rain, hail, thunder and snow to Central California

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- On Sunday, a tempest brought rain, hail, and thunder to the Valley floor, and up successful the Sierra, it brought a caller furniture of snow.

Even though rainfall and hail were pounding the pavement, the show of upwind was a blessed 1 for people.

"I've noticed with the past fewer rainstorms everything is greenish and caller looking now, which is ever truly nice," said Kendra Burt successful Madera.

Several radical gathered successful the Tower District for the Mardi Gras parade, acceptable with umbrellas successful anticipation of terrible weather.

"Rain oregon shine, arsenic agelong arsenic it's harmless for our assemblage to beryllium here, we are going to beryllium here, rainfall oregon shine," said 1 Mardi Gras organizer.

Even with the bedewed conditions, radical inactive recovered clip to spell retired and bask the chill upwind astatine River Park.

"Even though the rainfall comes and goes. Sometimes we person the flooding that happens, you know, each truthful often. It's conscionable bully to benignant of beryllium capable to instrumentality a locomotion out. It inactive goes on, that's wherefore we deterioration jackets and everything else. So, the rainfall doesn't needfully halt a bully day," said Kyle Lyman.

In the North Valley, Madera Police alerted radical of terrible flooding and asked residents to beryllium diligent arsenic Public Works cleared the streets for drivers.

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