{"id":66588,"date":"2026-02-17T18:04:45","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T23:04:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/17\/winter-storm-brings-very-heavy-snow-and-more-rain-to-california\/"},"modified":"2026-02-17T18:04:45","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T23:04:45","slug":"winter-storm-brings-very-heavy-snow-and-more-rain-to-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/17\/winter-storm-brings-very-heavy-snow-and-more-rain-to-california\/","title":{"rendered":"Winter storm brings \u2018very heavy\u2019 snow and more rain to California"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Avalanche warning for Sierra Nevadas while southern California experiences heavy rain and flooding<\/p>\n<p>California is being blanketed by a winter storm that has brought the coldest air mass in three years to the state \u2013 along with heavy snowfall, road closures and power outages.<\/p>\n<p>Two Pacific storms are expected to bring more than three feet of snow to the Sierra Nevadas and heavy rainfall to lower elevation parts of the state, including Los Angeles and San Diego, where flooding could occur in recent burn scars.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/feb\/17\/california-storm-snow-rain-floods\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Avalanche warning for Sierra Nevadas while southern California experiences heavy rain and flooding California is being blanketed by a winter storm that has brought the coldest air mass in three years to the state \u2013 along with heavy snowfall, road closures and power outages. Two Pacific storms are expected to bring more than three feet &#8230; <a title=\"Winter storm brings \u2018very heavy\u2019 snow and more rain to California\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/17\/winter-storm-brings-very-heavy-snow-and-more-rain-to-california\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Winter storm brings \u2018very heavy\u2019 snow and more rain to California\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66588\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}