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Hurricanes that affect California are mainly the remnants of hurricanes or tropical storms. In the twentieth century, only four eastern Pacific tropical cyclones have brought tropical storm-force winds to the Continental United States: the 1939 Long Beach Tropical Storm, Tropical Storm Joanne in 1972, Tropical Storm Kathleen in 1976, and Tropical Storm Nora in 1997.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom said Monday he would pre-emptively mobilize state resources to tackle the storm, including assigning 65 fire engines, seven water tenders, seven helicopters and 109 ...
The storms caused record-breaking rainfall totals to be observed in multiple areas, as well as the declaration of states of emergency in multiple counties in Southern California. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] Wind gusts of hurricane force were observed in San Francisco , along with wind gusts reaching over 100 miles per hour (160 km/h) in the Sierra Nevada .
Northern California is primed to get two atmospheric river storms, according to Courtney Carpenter, a meteorologist with the weather service's Sacramento office.
Watch: Rain erodes California cliff prompting evacuation of nearby residences. 15:23, Louise Boyle. Watch: California storm causes fatal flooding as mass evacuations are put into effect
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) -A deadly Pacific storm, the second "Pineapple Express" weather system to sweep the West Coast in less than a week, dumped torrential rain over Southern California on Monday ...
A powerful storm system has drenched parts of California, leaving at least three people dead, knocking out power and prompting dangerous mudslides and rivers of debris stretching across neighborhoods.
Storm No. 2 is expected to wallop Southern California with “very heavy rainfall,” Swain said, and bring especially strong winds, as high as 70 miles per hour, to the northern part of the state ...