LOS ANGELES: A major winter storm rolled into California Tuesday, forcing more than 100 evacuations in burn areas while threatening flooding and travel delays through Christmas for much of the state, officials said.
“On Tuesday, a broad plume of moisture will move over California,” the National Weather Service said in a statement, warning “anyone traveling on Christmas Eve or Christmas Day” in northern, central and southern parts of the state to “exercise extreme caution.”
Driven by an atmospheric river known as “the Pineapple Express,” which moves the heavy moisture from the tropical climes of Hawaii to rain on the West Coast, the storm is expected to dump rain and snow for several days.