A third day of an atmospheric river storm has inundated Northern California and the Bay Area, with the storm spreading from the North Bay south across the region, flooding creeks, roads, and low-lying areas.

After flood waters from heavy rainstorms deluged two small farmworker towns in January 2023, California set aside $20 million each for the communities to rebuild.

California is in the grip of an atmospheric river, a continuation of the early season storm that arrived as a bomb cyclone and unleashed widespread chaos in the state. The intense precipitation has led to road closures,