Major Storm Ramping Up Across California

SAN FRANCISCO (AP/CBS13) — A large tempest ramped up Sunday with snowfall successful Northern California that forced drivers to wrapper their tires successful chains and airy rainfall successful the little elevations.

The tempest promises to driblet up to 8 feet of snowfall connected the highest peaks and drench different parts of California. It’s expected to intensify overnight into the aboriginal portion of the week and bring beardown upwind that could pb to powerfulness outages.

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Locally, its guardant advancement stalled implicit the Bay Area but was expected to gradually displacement southward and intensify Sunday nighttime done Monday, according to the National Weather Service.

Isolated thunderstorms are forecast to make down the beforehand aboriginal Monday and Tuesday.

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A 2nd strategy volition bring backmost wide rainfall and snowfall chances Wednesday done Thursday.

Pacific Gas & Electric sent crews to wide vegetation distant from powerfulness lines to trim the accidental of energy outages. Meanwhile, forecasters warned radical successful the Sierra Nevada to hole for days of snowfall.

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