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A historic “bomb cyclone” has caused multiple deaths and mass power outages after slamming into Seattle, Washington, as it charts a destructive path through California and Oregon.
According to NBC, Sumeet Singh called the storm that hit the company’s service area, which covers a huge area of the state from Northern to near Southern California, yesterday “intense.”
A bomb cyclone pounding Northern California and the Pacific Northwest with heavy rain and strong winds was already blamed for two deaths and will likely fuel flooding, rock slides, debris flows ...
In northern California, flood and high wind watches were in effect, with up to 8 inches (20 centimeters) of rain predicted for parts of the San Francisco Bay Area, North Coast and Sacramento Valley. A winter storm watch was issued for the northern Sierra Nevada above 3,500 feet (1,066 meters), where 15 inches (28 centimeters) of snow was ...
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.
The rain started falling early Wednesday and is set to keep falling for days on end.
A storm, or cyclone, is essentially a giant spinning vacuum in the atmosphere. When a storm's central pressure drops 0.71 of an inch of mercury inches (24 millibars) or more in 24 hours or less ...
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