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   January 5, 2023 - Flooding in California   
      
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      Heavy rain hit parts of central and northern California on New Year’s   
      Eve 2022, flooding communities near San Francisco and Sacramento. Water   
      breached levees along the Cosumnes River near Wilton, California,   
      flooding numerous roads including Highway 99—a major thoroughfare in   
      the Central Valley. Wilton and other nearby farming communities were   
      issued evacuation orders.   
      
      The Bay Area National Weather Service measured 5.5 inches (14   
      centimeters) of rain in downtown San Francisco on December 31, 2022,   
      the second wettest day in more than 170 years of record-keeping. This   
      daily total is about half of the city’s expected rainfall for the   
      entire month of December. Toward the northeast in Sacramento County,   
      some areas recorded up to 4 inches (10 centimeters) of rain within 24   
      hours, according to the National Weather Service.   
      
      The flooding that ensued is visible in the false-color image (top)   
      acquired on January 1, 2023, by the Moderate Resolution Imaging   
      Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Terra satellite. Water appears   
      light to dark blue. Vegetation is green and bare land is brown. For   
      comparison, the Terra MODIS image acquired on November 19, 2022 (lower   
      image) shows the same area prior to the intense rainfall.   
      
      Near Wilton, levees of the Cosumnes River have been breached. The   
      Sacramento County Office of Emergency Services urged residents of   
      Wilton, California, to evacuate on December 31, 2022, but changed the   
      order a few hours later to shelter-in-place due to treacherous road   
      conditions in the area. As flooding moved southwest along the Cosumnes   
      River on January 1, residents of Point Pleasant were ordered to leave   
      their homes and move livestock.   
      
      Emergency personnel rescued people from roofs of cars, and several   
      people in Wilton were stranded in their homes. Hundreds of people in   
      Sacramento County were still without power as of the morning of January   
      3, 2023. Crews of the Cosumnes River Levee District scrambled to fix   
      the levee breaches as another major winter storm approached North   
      Central California.   
      
      On January 4, California Governor Gavin Newsome declared a state of   
      emergency just ahead of the arrival of howling winds and drenching rain   
      later that day. Dozens of flights have been cancelled at the San   
      Francisco International Airport, while some schools in that city   
      cancelled schools for January 5, based on the expectation of extremely   
      difficult conditions. The Director of the California Governor’s Office   
      of Emergency Services was quoted as describing the current storm, which   
      began on the afternoon of January 4 and is expected to last at least   
      through January 5 with these words: “We anticipate that this may be one   
      of the most challenging and impactful series of storms to touch down in   
      California in the last five years.”   
      
      Image Facts   
      Satellite:  Terra   
      Date Acquired: 1/1/23   
      Resolutions:  1km (86.4 KB),  500m (200.4 KB),  250m (477 KB)   
      Bands Used: 7.2.1   
      Image Credit: MODIS Land Rapid Response Team, NASA GSFC   
      
      
      
   https://modis.gsfc.nasa.gov/gallery/individual.php?db_date=2023-01-05   
       
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