Central Valley sees rain on first day of 2026

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- The archetypal time of 2026 was welcomed with rainfall connected the Valley level and upland communities.

Jackie Gonzales started the twelvemonth connected a bully enactment with a greeting tally successful Downtown Fresno, embracing the time and caller upwind patterns.

"It's not that bad," she said. "The past mates of days started to get colder abruptly due to the fact that we had a infinitesimal wherever it was sunny and the fog came back, but I person to cheque the upwind app each day."

This tempest is expected to past into aboriginal adjacent week, but with a batch much breaks successful between.

Stephen McCoy with the National Weather Service successful Hanford says much breaks betwixt storms is simply a bully thing.

It allows h2o to travel wherever it's needed, but the anticipation of flooding is inactive a concern.

"Especially with the conditions that we've had, precise moist crushed that we've had, determination is not a batch of country for runoff," McCoy said.

The predicted storms volition besides interaction rainfall totals.

"Thanks to the rainfall we've gotten implicit the past mates of months, we are moving supra mean for cognition crossed each of our clime sites passim the Valley, and that is decidedly bully news," McCoy said.

Fresno and Clovis person crews connected stand-by for calls related to flooding oregon downed trees.

In Clovis, Chris Rodriguez with the Public Utilities Department tells Action News they person been preparing for weeks.

"We tin spell passim the full metropolis and wide retired each azygous tempest drain, and a upwind volition travel done and artifact them each up again, truthful it's a changeless conflict to marque definite we support things clear," helium said.

As the tempest continues, if you spot flooded roadways successful Fresno, telephone 311. In Clovis, you tin telephone 559-324-2600.

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