Storm after storm is causing repeated issues up and down the West Coast for the week of Christmas.
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00:00How are you out in the western part of the nation here?
00:02We're dealing with a lot going on.
00:03We are, and it's like you hand-picked those icons
00:05for Christmas Eve.
00:06I mean, like, what would you draw, right,
00:07if Christmas Eve was a forecast?
00:09Yeah.
00:09Some snowflakes, some clouds, some ice.
00:12Mine's looking a little different.
00:13It's wet.
00:14We take you into a minute past here.
00:16A great tool, especially this time of year,
00:19because it travels right along with you there.
00:22As long as you have the AccuWeather app,
00:24it'll pick up on your location, especially
00:26if you have location services on.
00:27Or you can also just type in your location,
00:29where you may be staying.
00:30If you're in a running California,
00:32I mean, periods of rain pretty heavy here
00:34for at least the next 118 minutes.
00:36It will drop in intensity a little bit
00:39as we head into the 5 o'clock.
00:40That's local time, of course.
00:42And it's going to be wet, wet, wet across the Northwest
00:45and into central parts of California.
00:48Look at those huge waves crashing down in Santa Cruz.
00:50We were talking about the big issues
00:52there along the wharf and the collapse.
00:55Scary situation here with some dangerous surf.
00:57And we'll start to see rain totals come up.
00:59Or this is just the totals over the last 24 hours.
01:02But these numbers will be increasing
01:03over the next 24 hours, as you're already
01:06seeing more of that moisture move on in across Oregon, even
01:09parts of Washington state at this point.
01:13Windy, windy, windy.
01:14So far, we've seen wind gusts up to about 17 miles per hour
01:17into Portland.
01:18But the rest of the locations we have plotted on here
01:20haven't been exceeding that here.
01:22So we'll be watching the windiest conditions just
01:25offshore, but those will be moving in with the storm
01:27as we head into tonight and through the day tomorrow.
01:30Showed you some video out of Santa Cruz,
01:32but the same story here farther north,
01:34where we've had waves that have been crashing.
01:36Look at these 20, 21 feet in some locations
01:39there offshore here of the Oregon and Washington coastline.
01:43So a very powerful storm, lots of energy, lots of moisture
01:45moving on in through the rest of tonight
01:48and into our Tuesday night.
01:50Bringing with it travel delays could bring some more mudslides
01:53and flooding in areas that have already
01:54seen some of that heavy rain as we just
01:56got done with a round of storms.
01:58Plus, the wind is going to be pretty powerful here
02:00as we head into our Christmas Eve.
02:03Through tonight, heavier rain continues
02:05to make its way farther north.
02:07And then those snow levels begin falling here.
02:09And we'll be watching the snow move on through.
02:11For some of the passes, it's a couple inches.
02:13For others, it's closer to feet.
02:15We'll be taking a closer look at that.
02:18So one storm impacting the Northwest now.
02:20Plenty more on its heels.
02:21You can see that next storm there off into the Pacific.
02:24And that's why so much rain is going to be falling here
02:26when you look at future rainfall.
02:27Those bright shades of yellow popping up along Oregon,
02:30into Washington, into Northern California.
02:33More accurately, they're exclusively
02:34calling for the 4 to 8 inches of rain in the forecast
02:37out until Friday.
02:38So it's storm after storm after storm producing this rain.
02:40And actually, the local storm acts up to 16 inches of rain.
02:44And some areas could see 16 inches of snow,
02:46like Donner Pass and the 12 to 18 range.
02:48Sonora Pass also could see a foot or more of snow.
02:53Christmas Day, not as festive as the one
02:55Jeff was showing there across parts of the Northeast.
02:57But Seattle has some showers there.
02:59And we'll keep it cloudy in Boise.