LEMON: Whoever said it never rains in California couldn't be more wrong. Check this out, this road sign sums it up. Slippery, wet, but there are other weather problems hitting California right now, wind, high winds, as a matter of fact. Northern California bracing for floods. Let's bring in meteorologist Alexandra Steele. This is just the beginning, Alexandra, of what's expected to be a series of intense, powerful storms.</s>ALEXANDRA STEELE, AMS METEOROLOGIST: Absolutely. Take a look at this. This is the tip of the iceberg, 100-mile-per-hour wind gusts in Washington and Oregon and we've got a long way to go. This system is going to really ramp up and the peak of it will over the weekend. Storm totals, again, only so far with the system. About a foot of rain in Oregon through California, 6 and 7 inches of rain and the problem with this system is that it's a warm system so we're not going to see snow even at the highest elevations above 8,000 feet snow. But when you get rain that high in the mountain that's when the flooding occurs. So here's the look the current radar, yes, a lot of rain but seeing when's behind this, that's when the system really has energy and so much potential energy. Wave one moved through yesterday. Wave two, today and tomorrow. The most potent of all of these three waves from the coast and on to the northwest will be wave three and that's through the weekend, Saturday and Sunday and again because it's so warm, at the highest elevations above 8,000 feet. We will see a few inches and a few feet of rain, but what we're going to see is ten inches of rain potentially. So Don, flooding with this is really huge, especially through the weekend.</s>LEMON: Thank you, Alexandra Steele.
Heavy Rain, Winds Hit North California