Strongest Atmospheric River Yet Slams California With Deadly Impacts

Millions of storm-weary people across California faced another round of life-threatening weather to start the week as an atmospheric river unloaded more than a month’s worth of rain in one day, which sparked flash floods, rock slides and avalanches.

The early-week storm is the latest of a line of storms that have pummeled California since New Year’s Eve. More than a dozen storm-related fatalities have been reported across the state since the end of 2022, which is .