'Cyclone parade' rages in California: 12 dead, thousands without power

California has been bracing for more severe weather since Jan. 8 after a week of torrential rains and damaging winds that have killed at least 10 people in the past 12 days and left hundreds of thousands of homes and businesses out of power. Reuters.

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National Weather Service forecasters have warned that northern and central California are still on the path of an "incessant parade of cyclones," promising little relief for the region until midweek.

Two overlapping phenomena—a huge airborne flow of dense moisture from the ocean called an atmospheric river, and a sprawling low-pressure hurricane system known as a bomb cyclone—have caused devastating flooding and record-breaking snowfall over the past week.

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Recent storms have vividly demonstrated the effects of sea and air warming caused by climate change.

"These storms are driven by climate change," Wade Crowfoot, head of California's Natural Resources Division, told a news conference.

Despite the flood, a two-decade drought continues in the western United States. Climate change has brought extreme heat, drought and floods. Experts say it will take several exceptionally rainy years in a row for the west to replenish aquifers and reservoirs.

At least 12 people have died in weather-related incidents in California over the past 10 days, California Gov. Gavin Newsom said at a news conference. Among the victims was a toddler who was killed by a tree. It crushed a mobile home in northern California.

A woman who lived in a homeless camp on the banks of the Sacramento River died on January 7 in the evening during a raging storm when a tree branch fell on her tent.

Joe Costa, the woman's campmate, reported on January 8 that he found her barely breathing.

“I started calling 911… I pulled her out of the tent, but she didn’t respond,” Costa recalls.

According to local news reports, rescuers attempted to resuscitate the woman before taking her to the hospital, where she was pronounced dead.

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Some 424 California homes and businesses were left without power on Jan. 000 afternoon, state officials said at a news conference.

Another major storm was due to hit on Jan. 9, state officials said, with another atmospheric river, the sixth of the season, expected later this week.

“We expect the worst is yet to come,” Newsom said.

Severe weather last week unleashed strong gusts of wind that overturned trucks, flooded the streets of small towns along the northern California coast and caused a storm surge that destroyed a pier in Santa Cruz.

Heavy rain and snow have caused significant flooding and soil glut, according to the National Weather Service, meaning the next storm this week will pose an additional flood threat.

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By January 10, 1,5 meters of snow may fall in the Sierra Nevada mountains.

Newsom declared a state of emergency on Jan. 4 and said he asked the White House to issue a federal emergency declaration ahead of the upcoming storms.

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