California weather: State braces for more storms after 12 killed - BBC

California is bracing for much terrible upwind this week, with forecasters informing of an incoming "relentless parade of cyclones".

The US authorities has already suffered a week of torrential downpours and damaging winds that killed 12 radical successful 10 days, Governor Gavin Newsom said.

More than 120,000 radical are inactive without powerfulness arsenic of Monday morning.

The politician warned connected Sunday that the astir brutal upwind is owed successful the adjacent 48 hours.

"We expect to spot the worst of it inactive up of us," Governor Newsom said astatine a quality conference. "Don't trial fate."

This caller circular of terrible upwind volition bring dense rainfall connected already flooded rivers, damaging winds that are expected to topple trees and powerfulness lines, and dense snowfall successful northeast California.

The US National Weather Service (NWS) said the heaviest and astir wide rainfall volition apt hap astir Tuesday greeting and afternoon, and person issued a flood informing successful areas astir Los Angeles, including Orange County and the San Bernardino County Mountains.

The Sacramento Valley is besides nether a flood advisory. Schools successful and astir Sacramento person cancelled classes connected Monday successful anticipation of the tempest and amidst wide powerfulness outages.

In the past week, California has experienced 2 overlapping upwind phenomena - an atmospheric river, wherever an airborne watercourse of dense moisture flows successful from the ocean, and a weaponry cyclone, a tempest with a accelerated driblet successful unit that creates a cyclone effect.

Last week's storms inflicted wide harm successful bluish California and dumped record-breaking rain.

The tempest damaged homes and businesses, and killed astatine slightest 12 people. Among the victims was a toddler who died aft a redwood histrion fell onto a mobile location successful bluish California.

A pistillate who lived successful a stateless encampment on the Sacramento River besides died connected Saturday erstwhile a histrion subdivision fell connected her tent.

Much of the country deed by dense rainfall has been nether utmost drought conditions. Last year, California issued caps connected however overmuch h2o residents tin usage successful an effort to conserve its depleting supply.

Despite the rain, overmuch of the authorities remains nether mean to utmost drought warnings, according to the US Drought Monitor.

Experts person said that it would instrumentality galore years of rainfall to reverse the two-decade-long drought that has deed the occidental US.