Drought-stricken California pounded by massive storm

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A almighty tempest barreled toward Southern California aft flooding highways, toppling trees, cutting powerfulness to 380,000 inferior customers and causing mudflows successful areas burned bare by caller fires crossed the bluish portion of the state.

According to CBS News, meteorologists are calling it a "bomb cyclone" wherever astatine slightest 24 MB successful unit is dropped by a strategy successful a span of 24 hours oregon less.

Drenching showers and beardown winds accompanied the accomplishment of an atmospheric river.

That's a agelong and wide plume of moisture pulled successful from the Pacific Ocean.

Flooding was reported crossed the San Francisco Bay Area.

According to PowerOutage.US, much than 99,000 residents are without powerfulness successful California.

Authorities closed State Route 70 successful Butte County due to the fact that of mudslides wrong the monolithic Dixie Fire pain scar.

The upwind work said Sunday was San Francisco's 4th wettest time dating backmost to the Gold Rush years.

According to CBS News, astatine slightest 2 radical were killed successful Washington State erstwhile a histrion fell connected a conveyance successful King County.

Residents successful Northern California saw up to 10 inches of rainfall successful conscionable 24 hours, the quality outlet reported.

The New York Times reported that a wintertime upwind informing was issued by the National Weather Service connected Monday with dense snowfall successful the Sierra Nevada done Tuesday morning.