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The Latest Breaking News on Californians eager for sunnier days after relentless winter

Biden tours storm-ravaged communities on California coast

US president is visiting hard-hit areas of California where flooding, intense waves and mudslides forced evacuations.

Al Jazeera

After pummeling, scientists say California storms were more hype than climate change

LOS ANGELES — As California emerges from a two-week bout of deadly atmospheric rivers, a number of climate researchers say the recent storms appear to be typical of the intense, periodic rains the state has experienced throughout its history and not the result of global warming.

Los Angeles Times

California faces catastrophic flood dangers — and a need to invest billions in protection

LOS ANGELES — The storms that have been battering California offer a glimpse of the catastrophic floods that scientists warn will come in the future and that the state is unprepared to endure.

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Biden bolsters California disaster declaration as storm death toll rises to 22

The president is due to visit California on Thursday.

Axios

Biden to tour California storm damage, see recovery efforts

President Joe Biden is set to tour damaged areas of California and be briefed on recovery efforts in the wake of devastating storms that have hit the state in recent weeks

The Independent UK

Parts of California in for a 'quick shot of rain' before drier weather arrives

LOS ANGELES — A series of atmospheric river storms that dropped record-breaking rain and unleashed chaos across California will end with a whimper this week, as a weak storm will give way to what's expected to be a prolonged drier period.

Los Angeles Times

Flood forecasts in real-time with block-by-block data could save lives – a new machine learning method makes it possible

The extreme flooding and mudslides across California in recent weeks took many drivers by surprise. Sinkholes swallowed cars, highways became fast-moving rivers of water, entire neighborhoods were evacuated. At least 20 people died in the storms, several of them after becoming trapped in cars in rushing water.

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California begins to clean up storm damage as weather clears

The damage is spread across 41 of California's 58 counties

Irish Mirror

Drought, fire, flood: natural disasters test California town

Boulder Creek (United States) (AFP) - Jason and Shannon Phleger had just rebuilt their wildfire-ravaged home when it was wrecked again by one of the powerful storms that swept through California last week.

AFP

California residents struggle to recover after weeks of storms

Residents grapple with the effects of three straight weeks of severe weather as mudslides and rescue efforts continue.

Al Jazeera

Flooded communities, 500 mudslides, broken bridges: California faces long, costly storm recovery

LOS ANGELES — The atmospheric river storms that pummeled California for weeks inflicted "extensive" damage to as many as 40 of the state's 58 counties, and total repairs could reach as much as $1 billion, according to authorities.

Los Angeles Times

Supermarket shelves stripped bare in north Queensland as warnings about flash flooding remain, despite easing rain

Heavy rain is expected to ease today but days of flooding leave supermarkets running low on supplies in parts of Queensland's north, with producers finding new routes to get fruit and vegetables into the region.

ABC News

California weather calms after weeks of storms

California’s weather has calmed down after weeks of atmospheric rivers that have drenched the state and covered its mountains in heavy snow

The Independent UK

Devastating storms might be over, but officials caution California to stay vigilant

As the skies begin to clear and a relentless series of atmospheric rivers starts to move out, Californians are finally catching a break as they assess the aftermath of weeks of downed trees, landslides and devastating flooding.

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The complex psychology behind keeping Californians safe in a megastorm

Despite desperate pleas from California Gov. Gavin Newsom about the dangers of extreme weather, and weeks of advance warnings from meteorologists, the relentless series of storms drenching California has already claimed more lives than the death toll from the past two years of wildfires.

Irish Mirror

More rain and snow hits California in ninth storm in three weeks

US President Joe Biden will travel to California on Thursday to visit areas impacted by the extreme weather

AFP

Biden to visit flood-hit California on Thursday

San Francisco (AFP) - US President Joe Biden will travel to flood-hit areas of California on Thursday, the White House said, as the country's most populous state cleans up from a devastating and lethal series of storms.

Asharq Al-Awsat

California Rainstorm Death Toll Reaches 20, Biden Plans Visit

The parade of atmospheric rivers that pounded California for three weeks finally faded on Monday, enabling the state to begin lengthy repairs to roads and levees as the White House announced President Joe Biden planned to survey the damage. The nine consecutive rainstorms that inundated California in succession since Dec.…

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Overnight downpours cause damage throughout Bay Area, but forecasts clear for remainder of the week

SAN JOSE, Calif. — One of the wettest periods in the Bay Area’s recorded history began winding to a close this week with a lashing of rain that caused hillsides to buckle in the Berkeley and Oakland hills and several highways to close across Northern California.

AFP

Biden to visit flood-hit California Thursday: White House

Axios

California faces weeks-long cleanup as "one last moist storm system" lashes saturated state

President Biden will on Thursday visit communities along California's central coast that have been affected by the storms that have killed at least 19 people.

Tribune News Service

President Biden to travel to California this week to assess storm damage

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden will travel to California’s Central Coast Thursday to observe storm damage and “assess what additional federal support is needed,” the White House said.

Al Jazeera

Ninth severe storm batters California in ‘major disaster’

Governor Gavin Newsom signs an executive order to help with relief efforts as state endures three weeks of storms.

Tribune News Service

Overnight downpours cause damage throughout Bay Area, but forecasts clear for remainder of the week

SAN JOSE, Calif. — The San Francisco Bay Area was doused with yet another overnight storm late Sunday into Monday. But it appears that the downed trees and power outages could have been a parting gift from the historic downpours, as mostly bright skies crowd forecasts for the foreseeable future.

WEKU

For California, weeks of deadly storms are finally set to wane after Monday

Since late December, a series of storms had dropped a year's worth of rain in just a few weeks, causing widespread floods and power outages. At least 19 people have died as a result of the storms.

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