Key Points
Heavy floods, mudslides, rain, and snow have hit California with a powerful atmospheric river storm leading to power cuts in many homes and businesses..
A strong atmospheric river storm's tail-end led to power cuts in hundreds of thousands of homes and businesses in California on Monday with heavier rain, flooding, mudslides, and huge feet of snow in the mountains...
Flash flooding is considered a much bigger threat than any weak tornado that the storm might be creating as informed by the weather service and severe flooding was possible across the majority of the region from the atmospheric river which is a river in the sky responsible for utmost snow and rain in the West...
In Southern California, the hefty winds blasting the region on Sunday were decreasing, however, a warning was issued by the National Weather Service that a weather pattern that is not stable enough could be generating rainspout or windstorms..
An evacuation warning for flood-prone, low-lying areas was issued by Mayor Todd Gloria in San Diego, which were pummelled by heavy rainfall in the past week and were inundated two weeks ago...
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