Mount Shasta Herald
An evacuation warning was in effect Tuesday through Wednesday for residents in the Whitney Creek area after a flash flood tumbled water and mud in the Lava Fire burn scar.
The Siskiyou County Sheriff’s office issued the warning at 6 p.m. Tuesday for areas of Juniper Terrace Road and Rising Hill Road in the Mount Shasta Vista subdivision due to a flash flood in Whitney Creek. It was lifted in the late afternoon on Wednesday.
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5 p.m. Wednesday: Whitney Creek evacuation warning lifted
The Siskiyou County Sheriff’s Office has lifted the evacuation warning in effect for communities in the Whitney Creek area.
Tuesday was a real oddball, breaking two Redding weather records
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Amid a summer of smoky skies, drought and record-breaking heat, the weather in the North State broke or tied several different records Tuesday.
The National Weather Service said it recorded 0.01 inches of rain at the Redding Municipal Airport on Tuesday. That s one one-hundredth of an inch.
Put another way, that s an inch sliced up into 100 wafer-thin sections.
It may not seem like much rain enough to get your windshield dirty but it set a new rainfall record for the date, said Emily Heller, a meteorologist for the weather service.
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The Dixie fire burning in Northern Californiaâs Butte and Plumas counties mushroomed to more than 100,000 acres Thursday, becoming the second blaze in the state this year to surpass the megafire milestone.
The aggressive fire has now destroyed at least eight structures, the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, or Cal Fire, said, and at least 1,500 more are threatened as it continues its slow crawl east toward Lake Almanor.
The fire was at 103,910 acres and 17% containment Thursday morning, Cal Fire said.
It is the second megafire in the state this year. Days ago, the 105,000-acre Sugar fire in Butte County garnered the designation, for a fire surpassing 100,000 acres.
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