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LOS ANGELES — A winter storm blanketed California with heavy rain and snow Monday.
The storm stretched from the Mexican border up to Oregon and Washington and was expected to last through this afternoon, said Stan Wasow ski, a forecaster for the National Weather Service in San Diego. He said rain clouds extended several hundred miles off the Pacific coast.
“This one here is hitting the entire state,” Wasowski said.
Heavy snow forced the closure of a 50-mile stretch of Interstate 5 in both directions in the mountains north of Los Angeles. In northern California, a flood advisory was issued for the San Francisco Bay Area, and a flash-flood watch was in effect for much of California’s central coast.
