According to monitoring site PowerOutage, about 185,000 people are now without power after prolonged and in some counties very intense rains in western California.
A system fed by a large column of moisture over the Pacific Ocean has hit the southern part of the state with heavy downpours in some areas, NBC News reported.
Los Angeles International Airport experienced 50 millimeters (mm) of rain overnight, the sixth-highest total for a day recorded in March.
The center of this city received 80mm as of yesterday, a figure well above the historical average of 56mm for the current month.
Nearly 15 million people have been alerted in California to the occurrence of strong winds, with hurricane force exceeding 90 miles per hour in several counties, CNN reported.
On the other hand, a storm in the Northeast brought accumulations of snow, downed power lines and trees, and recorded winds exceeding 40 miles per hour.
To date, New York state and several New Jersey counties have declared states of emergency, and hundreds of area schools and businesses have been shut down throughout the Northeast.
Frank Pereira of the National Weather Service was quoted by The Hill as saying the storm is concentrated off the New England coast and some snowfall continues to affect parts of the region.
The largest snow accumulations were recorded in the Massachusetts cities of Peterborough and Ashby, at about 90 centimeters (cm), while northern New York and the Catskill Mountains recorded 60 cm.
NBCBoston reported that snow was falling at a rate of 1 inch per hour through Tuesday afternoon in some parts of that state.
Nearly 200,000 customers in the Northeast are without power, according to PowerOutage.
As many as 2,100 flights were canceled across the country on Tuesday, according to flight-tracking website FlightAware.
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