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An evacuation warning was issued for parts of Nevada County ahead of a storm expected to bring heavy rain and strong wind to Northern California.

Robert Lee of the High Lonesome Ranch was on the scene from day two of last year’s Pine Gulch Fire north of Grand Junction.

Local population-estimate work by Colorado Parks and Wildlife crews on the Colorado River is suggesting so far that debris flows from flooding on upstream burn scars this summer had only

Factors bringing us dangerous situations like threatening flooding, life-threatening mudslides. we will see debris flow from those areas where we saw severe wildfire. it was a terrible wildfire season. it will help with this rain, but we have more before that. we have three factors. a bomb cyclone that is moving onshore. what this means, it is a big word, but is it is a strong, powerful system, you will see a 24 millibar pressure drop in 24 hours. that is what we will see, along with atmospheric river, a plume of moisture, almost like a hurricane, where you see those rivers of water coming in....

Eventually, the slope will fail and we'll get what is called a debris flow. they can travel at speeds from 30 to 50 miles per hour, taking rock, mud, and debris along with it. and it obviously can create a lot of damage alongside that. look at the snowfall potential here across the sierra nevada mountain range and the potential for hurricane force gusts. that will take down some trees, tree limbs, and the potential for power outages along the coastal areas of california, oregon, and washington. now, kim, we can't necessarily equate this to climate change, this particular event, but we are seei...