California faces ‘parade of cyclones’ after weeks of floods
Global News
Forecasters warned that northern and Central California was still in the path of a "relentless parade of cyclones" on Sunday, promising little relief for the region.
Torrential downpours and damaging winds had left hundreds of thousands of homes and businesses without power in California on Sunday after a deadly week of weather, and the state was still bracing for more heavy rain and snow to fall through Tuesday.
Forecasters warned that northern and Central California was still in the path of a “relentless parade of cyclones” on Sunday, promising little relief for the region.
Two overlapping phenomena – an immense airborne stream of dense moisture from the ocean called an atmospheric river and a sprawling, hurricane-force low-pressure system known as a bomb cyclone – have caused devastating flooding and record snowfall over the past week. The latest storms vividly illustrated the consequences of warmer sea and air temperatures caused by climate change.
At least six people have died from weather-related incidents in California since New Year’s weekend, including a toddler killed by a fallen redwood tree crushing a mobile home in northern California.
More than 460,000 homes were still without power in California as of Sunday morning, according to data from PowerOutage.us.
“The West Coast remains under the target of a relentless parade of cyclones that form and intensify over the Pacific Ocean,” the National Weather Service (NWS) said in a Sunday morning forecast.
In the last week, severe weather spawned violent wind gusts that toppled semi-trucks, flooded the streets of small towns along northern California’s coast and churned up storm surge that destroyed a pier in the beach city of Santa Cruz.
The heavy rain and snow have already caused significant flooding and ground saturation, meaning the next storm to move through early this week would bring an additional flood threat, the NWS said.
Readiness issues have left Canada's Chief of the Defence Staff Gen. Wayne Eyre feeling 'concerned,' he told 'The West Block' host Mercedes Stephenson in an interview, aired Sunday.
As the WHO mulls whether COVID-19 remains an emergency, some health experts say COVID is still a public health threat and measures to combat it in Canada should continue.
The attack, which police described as a "terrorist incident," underlined fears of an escalation in violence after months of clashes in the West Bank.
Moscow said in a 2021 submission to the UN that it wanted much more Arctic seabed, a move that has implications for Canada and Denmark who have their own claims.
Poland, which has positioned itself as one of Kyiv's staunchest allies, pressed hard for Germany to send Leopard 2 tanks to Ukraine and to allow other countries to do so as well.
The rocket launches from Gaza marked the first such attack from the militant Hamas-ruled territory since Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu returned to power.
Members of a family living in Calgary are in a desperate race against time to find a skilled job. They are facing deportation unless their temporary work permit can be renewed.
Secretary of State Antony Blinken will travel to Egypt, Israel and the West Bank this weekend, the State Department announced Thursday.
National Defence Minister Anita Anand made the commitment on Thursday, ending the debate over whether Canada would ship over battle tanks from its military stockpile to Ukraine.
An arrest warrant had already been issued for Arthur E., who was brought before a judge of Germany's top criminal court on Monday and remanded in custody, the statement added.
Helen La Lime expressed hope that the U.N. Security Council will deal positively with the issue of the force requested by the Haitian government to deal with a growing gang crisis.