The Daily Weather Update from FOX Weather: Relentless rain continues in California as another storm arrives
Start your day with the latest weather news – The next atmospheric river storm arrives in California today following the widespread flooding across the state Monday and Tuesday.
Next significant atmospheric river to impact California will be this weekend
The FOX Forecast Center is tracking the seemingly never ending run of atmospheric rivers aimed at California. The next one, which will be weaker, moves in Wednesday and will primarily impact northern California and the Pacific Northwest. More significant and impactful storms will slam into California Saturday and early next week.
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No break for California: Relentless storms continue as another atmospheric river arrives
The hits keep coming to California as the state deals with an onslaught of atmospheric river storms that has brought torrential rain and life-threatening flooding, mudslides and debris flows to many parts of the state.
Widespread flooding was reported across California on Monday and Tuesday, with more than 300 reports of flooding coming into various National Weather Service offices across the state. While heavy rain drenched much of the Golden State, Santa Barbara, Ventura and San Luis Obispo counties were hit especially hard, with more than 15 inches of rain falling in higher elevations.
As of Tuesday, California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s office said the series of powerful storms had claimed the lives of at least 17 people, which is more than wildfires over the past two years combined.
In an aerial view, a car and a pickup truck are seen inside a sinkhole as another storm created by a series of atmospheric rivers inundates California on January 10, 2023 in Los Angeles, California. Two vehicles containing four people fell into the sinkhole which had opened up under the road they were driving on during heavy rainfall in the the suburban Los Angeles neighborhood of Chatsworth. (Photo by David McNew/Getty Images)
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After a brief break in the onslaught of heavy rain Tuesday night, the next atmospheric river storm arrives in the Golden State on Wednesday. Moisture will stream ahead of a large low-pressure system in the Eastern Pacific, which will bring another round of heavy rain to Northern California. Soils in the state remain saturated from the relentless rainfall over the past few weeks, which means it won't take much additional rain to trigger more flooding.
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The flash flood threat on Wednesday, Jan. 11, 2023.
(FOX Weather)
Dramatic videos, photos show devastation from barrage of atmospheric rivers in California
The onslaught of atmospheric rivers continues to pummel California this week, making roads impassable, creating massive sinkholes and dropping more than a foot of rain in some places.
Storms have been slamming into California over the past few weeks, and all the heavy rain has led to widespread flooding, created dangerous mudslides and sent trees sliding off mountain roads.
Here are some of the most dramatic videos and photos that show the scope of the devastation across the Golden State.
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- Watch: California golfers flee ‘45-foot’ waves crashing onto Pebble Beach course
- Dramatic time-lapse videos show floodwaters turn roads into rivers from atmospheric river slamming California
- Community unites to rebuild storm-damaged restaurant in California
Atmospheric river unleashes deadly rainstorms on California: See the widespread flooding and destruction
An onslaught of atmospheric river storms has brought torrential rain and life-threatening flooding, mudslides and debris flows to many parts of California.
US saw 18 billion-dollar weather disasters last year
From hurricanes to wildfires and everything in between, it was a deadly and costly year for weather disasters in the U.S. in 2022.
The U.S. experienced 18 separate billion-dollar weather and climate disasters that killed at least 474 people last year.
NOAA said 2022 ranked the third highest for the number of billion-dollar weather disasters since 1980.
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Billion-dollar disasters in 2022, according to a NOAA report.
(FOX Forecast Center / FOX Weather)
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