California To Be Hit By Trifecta Of Fierce Storms

A potentially epic “three-punch” series of storms that could pound the region with rain not seen in a half-dozen years is barreling toward Southern California, promising to bury the local mountains in snow and threatening to unleash mudslides and floods. “Guaranteed, Northern and Central California are going to get hosed. And we’re going to get more than a glancing blow” in Southern California, said Bill Patzert, climate scientist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena. “We could get the big show, too.”