West we could seat four plus inches of rain. all of that water needs to go somewhere at the flood watch is in effect until monday, a high wind warning is going to go into effect at later on today. we are talking wins 20 35 miles per hour. gusts up to 60 miles per hour. but as you can see behind me plenty of people still on the las vegas strip so don t really seem to worry about all this. notes buddies yesterday it was raining our whole plan was toere in thee going to tough it out get through it. and so know we are not going to change our plans for it will be back later this week when it s nicer again progressive rain because it got hats were going to check in. are the las vegas area folks have been getting ready for the storm, sandbags have been distributed to some errors clark county has opened up their multi agency coordination center so emergency services can better respond. read berkley up equipment has been staged around the county in case roads are impacted.
Court specific this is specific time. where in it right of center of circulation is still down along going to lift up to the north but as it makes that move, these are kind of like the heavy showers taking all the way into 6:00 p.m. 8:00 p.m. we re still looking very heavy rain in that region before it started to lift up into central california, ultimately running into northern california and over too northern nevada. it does take a while for this to clear off. you are looking at some light precipitation than to early bending morning but followed by lunch sunil dried off across southern california in the near look at rain and northern california for this whole system is excellent be tracking slip to the pacific northwest. a lot of people are ultimately going to see this. rain to still to come as you look at some of the areas of origin. that s a good and the four 6 inches of rain we are going to seaford there will be isolated areas at the higher elevations in total get eight 10 in
Moments ago, when it rains it pours we now have that earthquake on top of tropical storm hilary. jon: tropical storm, earthquake, and what is it coming to california? it really is a question of when it rains it pours. everybody is brays for everything we are used to earthquakes of course what we are not used to at this time of year in particular is this kind of down port that is what is so dangerous for the next 24 hours or so. jon: i do have to ask with all the rain coming in the end the high surf i imagine there s the possibility of some of those cliffs at the edge of the ocean falling down? that is a major concern jon. in particular areas where we have had wildfires over the last 12 months or so. what are called burn scars they tend to be unstable in the first place because there is no vegetation left holding the earth together.
Through monday to start looking for the to the north. you are looking at extreme threat here or flash flooding. we already see some of those warnings out there but it s already happening in areas where you really do not see it. death valley could see as much rain here of the next 24 hours than they see in several years. it is a unique situation all around but as we said we still have a little ways to go through. jon: very concerning forecasts and plots thank you. thankfully no tsunami alert after the earthquake that adam mentioned let s head back to santa monica just west of los angeles chief correspondence and jonathan hunt s been out in the middle of the storm for the last several hours, jonathan. jon, our crew here on the pacific coast highway in santa monica certainly felt that earthquake. it was centered just about 60 miles north of us here. the icing on the cake if you
Her eastern corn kern portions there are some predictions expecting well over 4 inches of rain. this is a significant amount of rain. especially as mentioned in areas that have steep terrain, areas that historically has seen flash flood and great areas and have burn scars we could expect to see bud slides or landslides. this is a significant amount of heavy rainfall falling in areas that are susceptible to having emergencies as a result of the large rainfall. jon: you are a little north of ojai is where the earthquake was centered. did it have any effects where you are? did you feel it? we have had no reported effects as a result of the earthquake centered in ojai. one of things i did find interesting as we did receive shake alerts. notifications and alarms also to going off on all of our mobile devices. i was waiting to feel some sort of shock some shaking from that