LAKE COUNTY, Calif. — Forecasters said that Lake County could receive several more inches of rain in coming days as the last atmospheric river storms in a series move over the region.

The National Weather Service’s six-day forecast released on Friday and continuing until Thursday, Jan. 19, called for up to 7 inches of rain.

That’s a concern for areas of Lake County including Upper Lake, where residents on Main Street near Maddocks Court were seeing full culverts and water covering portions of the roadway late this week, leading to them placing sandbags and using fire hose to try to move water away from homes.

State Climatologist Dr. Michael Anderson said the storm on Friday was the end of the seventh atmospheric river storm in a series that began hitting California at Christmas.

He said the eighth storm will take place from Saturday through Tuesday, Jan. 17, to be followed by the ninth storm on Wednesday, Jan. 18.

Anderson said high pressure is building in the eastern Pacific, and rather than storms coming ashore from the southwest or the west, storms will start dropping in from the Gulf of Alaska. Those storms will be colder, with not as much moisture.

Early Saturday, Clear Lake’s level was at 2.54 feet Rumsey, the special measure for the lake, up nearly 5 feet since Christmas.

Due to the atmospheric river storm event’s continued impacts on Lake County, on Thursday, Sheriff Rob Howe declared a local emergency.

The Lake County Office of Emergency Services said Friday on its Facebook page that Sheriff Howe sent his thanks and appreciation to the California Highway Patrol’s Northern California Division for conducting aerial reconnaissance of remote areas of Lake County to assess the potential impacts of the atmospheric river event.

“The Lake County Office of Emergency Services and Sheriff’s Office continue to monitor the condition of our county during this storm event,” the agency said.

During a special Friday afternoon meeting of the Board of Supervisors, Lt. Gavin Wells, the deputy director of Lake County OES, presented Howe’s emergency proclamation to the board for ratification, which needed to take place within seven days of its issuance.

Wells said the state has declared an emergency due to the storms and Lake County was included in a federal declaration for disaster assistance for counties issued on Jan. 9.

The board voted unanimously to ratify the proclamation.

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