After a day of historic rainfall in California, parts of the South are on alert for flooding and states in the north are preparing for ice as winter weather sweeps across the U.S.
In San Diego, where a state of emergency was declared, more than a month’s worth of rain fell in three hours on Monday. It was the city’s wettest January day on record, with a rainfall total of 2.73 inches. Typically, San Diego gets 1.98 inches of rain for the entire month of January.
Dozens of rescues were reported across San Diego County due to the historic rainfall.
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Over the past three days, parts of Northern California and Southern California recorded 5 to 9 inches of rain amid a continuous onslaught of Pacific storms.