With a little help from El Niño, Mother Nature has turned on the spigot for California, though the North State so far has avoided the downpours that caused flooding elsewhere.

 

But that could change as a series of storms will continue to hit Redding and the surrounding mountains, said Nathan Owen with the National Weather Service’s office in Sacramento.

 

“Most of these storms are consistent with the El Niño pattern that’s been settling in the Pacific,” he said Wednesday.

 

About three-quarters of an inch had fallen Wednesday at the Redding Municipal Airport, he said.