California storm leaves over 560,000 properties with out energy, extra tough climate forward

Jan 8 (Reuters) – Torrential downpours and damaging winds left tons of of hundreds of properties and companies with out energy in California early on Sunday as the world braced for the subsequent onslaught of extreme climate.

Greater than 560,000 properties had been reported to be nonetheless with out energy in California as of 0506 ET (1006 GMT), based on knowledge from PowerOutage.us.

No less than six folks have died within the extreme climate since New Yr’s weekend, together with a toddler killed by a fallen redwood tree crushing a cellular dwelling in northern California.

Forecasters have meanwhile warned yet one more “atmospheric river” of dense, moist tropical air will clobber California on Monday with rain and mountain snow.

An NWS climate alert on Saturday warned that the cumulative impact of successive heavy rain storms since late December might carry rivers to report excessive ranges and trigger flooding throughout a lot of Central California.

Reporting by Kanjyik Ghosh in Bengaluru; further reporting by Rhea Binoy in Bengaluru Enhancing by Raissa Kasolowsky

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