Storm updates: What we know Tuesday about winter weather in the North State Matt Brannon, Damon Arthur, Michele Chandler and Mike Chapman, Redding Record Searchlight
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Updated at 9 p.m.
Redding residents across city are seeing snowfall Tuesday night. After other parts of Shasta County reported snow earlier in the day, snowfall within the city limits began to pick up around 8 p.m.
Further south, the city of Anderson is also seeing snowfall.
With hazardous driving conditions, a high number of collisions and spin outs are being reported on local roadways, with the California Highway Patrol responding to more than 20 incidents at 9:30 p.m.
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Storm on Tuesday night: Wind downs trees, power lines across Sacramento, N. California
Sacramento Bee 1/27/2021 Daniel Hunt, Noel Harris, Michael McGough, and Theresa Clift, The Sacramento Bee
Jan. 27 A menacing and massive winter storm, fueled by an atmospheric river from the north Pacific Ocean, has reached the Sacramento region on Tuesday night.
The extreme storm is bringing heavy winds, near-freezing rain and dangerous driving conditions to the Valley floor; even at low elevations, snow is falling in several areas in Northern California.
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Power outages reported across Sacramento region, SMUD says
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Evacuations were issued for thousands of California residents on Tuesday as an atmospheric river approached the coastline, bringing unusually heavy precipitation and widespread power outages.
More than 345,000 were without power on Wednesday morning, according to tracker PowerOutage.US.
At 10 p.m. PT on Tuesday, utility company Pacific Gas and Electric Co. reported that as many as 38,000 customers around the Bay Area were without power.
Evacuation orders are in place for the San Mateo, Santa Cruz and Monterey counties, though many residents told authorities they would not leave their homes even as Cal Fire warned of hazardous conditions.