Experts said a storm should hit the north and center of the demarcation tomorrow, but they expect rain and snowfall to be insignificant.
Overall, rainfall is trending less as flood warnings that blanketed millions on the central coast expired, the National Weather Service said.
Now the storm system is advancing inland and is expected to reach the Four Corners region (an area that unites the states of Colorado, Utah, Arizona and New Mexico) that day, with the greatest risk of particularly heavy snowfall.
Between December 26 and January 9, it rained up to six times more than usual in certain areas of California, disrupting traffic, flooding neighborhoods and forcing the evacuation of tens of thousands across the state.
According to a report by the CNN channel, the number of people killed in recent storms is greater than the death toll from wildfires in the past two years.
Among the 20 storm-related fatalities is a child who died when a tree fell on a house.
Rescuers continue to search for five-year-old Kyle Doan, who was swept from his mother’s hands by flood waters on January 9.
It was a “very difficult time in the state of California,” Deputy Governor Eleni Kounalakis told television.
“We went from four years with very little rain to suddenly, in a three-week period, nine atmospheric fluxes were compressed in such a short time,” he added.
There have been reports of more than 500 landslides in California since Dec. 30, the Geological Survey said.
US President Joe Biden last Saturday declared the major disaster category for this delineation, which will provide federal funds to residents and business owners in several counties in the territory.
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