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Southern California sees ‘life-threatening’ flooding from atmospheric river: Updates

Some scoffed at the dire forecast. But meteorologists for Los Angeles really did accurately predict eye-popping rain totals, with downtown seeing 60% of its annual rain in three days.

The slow-moving atmospheric river still battering California on Tuesday unleashed record rainfall, triple-digit winds and hundreds of mudslides.

Southern California has a complex relationship with the rain.

Some scoffed at the dire forecast. But meteorologists for Los Angeles really did accurately predict eye-popping rain totals, with downtown seeing 60% of its annual rain in three days.

The slow-moving atmospheric river still battering California on Tuesday unleashed record rainfall, triple-digit winds and hundreds of mudslides.

The deadly storm that is walloping California with hurricane-force winds and record amounts of rainfall was fueled in part by the powerful weather phenomenon known as a "bomb cyclone," the National Weather Service said.

Bay Area residents early Monday were able to enjoy sunnier skies, calmer winds and the departure of a deadly storm cell brought on by the second and final wave of an “atmospheric river” weather system. Still, the chaos wrought by the storm lingered, with hundreds of thousands of customers lacking power, and authorities cleaning up […]

At the height of Sunday afternoon's winds, more than 20 Bay Area weather stations recorded gusts over 80 mph.

The slow-moving atmospheric river still battering California on Tuesday unleashed record rainfall, triple-digit winds and hundreds of mudslides. In just two days, downtown Los Angeles got soaked by more than 7 inches (18 cm) of rain — nearly half of the 14.25 inches (36 cm) it normally gets per year. Downtown Los Angeles wasn't the only spot that received colossal amounts of rain.