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In San Mateo County, the authorities on Sunday morning ordered people in parts of the county to evacuate. “Please do not wait,” they said in a statement.

Elsewhere in the county, CalFire, the state’s firefighting agency, shared a video on Sunday morning of a small fire on a road that likely had ignited after a pole and a tree fell down. Downed trees have been reported across the northern part of the state.

White it appeared that most of the flooding was reported in the North Bay, landslides and dangerous road conditions were reported in areas across Northern California. Images were shared on social media on Sunday of small and large landslides, including one in Plumas County showing piles of rocks blocking a highway.

The California Highway Patrol in Truckee, north of Lake Tahoe, said on Twitter on Sunday afternoon that rocks and water had fallen down a mountainside, blocking a road.

On Tuesday, Gov. Gavin Newsom issued a proclamation extending California’s drought emergency statewide and asked residents to redouble their water conservation efforts. This has been California’s second driest year on record, with near-record low storage in the state’s largest reservoirs, the governor’s office said.

Severe drought conditions, worsened by climate change, continue to affect much of the Western United States and even the northern part of the Great Plains.

While droughts are not uncommon in the region, scientists say that climate change, in the form of warming temperatures and shifts in precipitation, is making the situation worse.