Hit by an “incessant parade of cyclones,” according to the weather services, California will experience new deluges on Thursday. Floods and landslides have already claimed at least 18 lives. The bad weather forecast will move towards the northern part of this western American state, the National Weather Service (NHS) warned. Other states on the northwest Pacific coast are expected to be affected early Saturday, he later added. “The heaviest rains are expected to hit northwestern California over the next two days,” with rainfall of up to a few inches, according to the NHS. The point in pictures about the damage from the weather.
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The Golden Gate Bridge seen through a windshield in the rain, in San Francisco, California January 4, 2023. – JOSH EDELSON/AFP
The past few days’ torrential rains on already soaked soil have caused widespread power outages, numerous flooding, uprooted many trees and cut off major roads in California, with the flooding sometimes taking motorists with it.
The Capitola wharf damaged by storm waves, seen through a broken window in Capitola, Calif., Thursday, Jan. 5, 2023. – NIC COURY/AP/SIPA
The state is currently undergoing “an endless onslaught of atmospheric fluxes” unprecedented since 2005, according to the weather services.
The Covered Bridge Historic Park after the recent storm of January 9, 2023. – CASEY FLANIGAN / IMAGESPACE / SIPA
Rarely are these “rivers of the sky,” which form with water vapor from the tropics and then pour waterspouts down the west coast of the United States.
Flooding from massive amounts of rain is seen in a neighborhood off Holohan Road near Watsonville, California on Monday, January 9, 2023. – BRONTE WITTPENN/AP/SIPA
While it is difficult to establish a direct link between these storm series and climate change, scientists regularly state that warming increases the frequency and intensity of extreme weather events.
A damaged pier in Capitola, California on January 9, 2023. – JOSH EDELSON/AFP
Last week’s storm had already knocked out power to tens of thousands of people, causing severe flooding and triggering landslides.
A flooded home in Gilroy, California on January 9, 2023. – JOSH EDELSON/AFP
It had come just days after another torrential downpour on New Year’s Eve.
Jesus Torres carries things from his flooded home in Merced, Calif. Tuesday, Jan. 10, 2023. – NOAH BERGER/AP/SIPA
According to California officials, the storms of the past few weeks have claimed at least 18 lives, “more than the wildfires of the past two years.”
On Tuesday, January 10, 2023, a foxhole formed near Freeway 118 in the Chatsworth neighborhood of Los Angeles. — JAE C. HONG / AP / SIPA
According to the Los Angeles Times, fatalities from recent storms include motorists trapped in their cars by flooding.
Two vehicles are stuck in a hole in the ground in the Chatsworth neighborhood of Los Angeles on Tuesday, January 10, 2023. — JAE C. HONG / AP / SIPA
Local residents were crushed by falling trees, a couple killed by a landslide and bodies swept away by the waves.
A young girl swings above a flooded playground at Covered Bridge County Park in Felton, Calif., Tuesday, January 10, 2023. – NIC COURY/AP/SIPA
More than 35,000 homes and businesses were without power as of early Thursday, according to specialist website PowerOutage.us.
Flood water filled the streets in Merced, California on January 10, 2023. — JOSH EDELSON/AFP
In places, amounts of precipitation were recorded that had not been reached for 150 years.
Cars continue on a flooded road in Planada, California as an ‘atmospheric flow’ on January 10, 2023. — JOSH EDELSON/AFP
California, which has been hit by an “incessant parade of hurricanes” according to the weather services, will experience fresh flooding on Thursday.
Flood water inundated the Rio Del Mar neighborhood of Aptos, California on Tuesday, January 10, 2023. – NIC COURY/AP/SIPA
The bad weather forecast will move towards the northern part of this western American state, the National Weather Service (NHS) warned.
Firefighters lift a fallen tree Tuesday, January 10, 2023 in Montecito, California. – RINGO HW CHIU / AP / SIPA
Other states on the northwest Pacific coast are expected to be affected early Saturday, he later added.
A Santa Cruz County Sheriff’s Deputy patrols along College Road near Cutter Drive in Watsonville, California on Monday, January 9, 2023. – SHMUEL THALER/AP/SIPA
“The heaviest rains are expected to hit northwestern California over the next two days,” with rainfall of up to a few inches, according to the NHS.
A pedestrian protects himself with an umbrella in San Francisco, Wednesday, Jan. 11, 2023. — JEFF CHIU/AP/SIPA
A portion of northern California was placed under flood or winter weather warnings on Wednesday.