After 12 people are killed by storms, California prepares for a “parade of cyclones”

After a week of heavy downpours and devastating winds claimed the lives of at least 12 people in the previous 10 days, California braced for more extreme weather on Sunday.

Thousands of homes and businesses lost electricity as a result of this cyclone. Northern and central California remained in the path of a “relentless parade of cyclones”, according to forecasters with the National Weather Service, and little reprieve was expected for the area until midweek.

Devastating flooding and record snowfall have been created over the past week by two overlapping phenomena: an enormous airborne stream of concentrated moisture from the ocean known as an “atmospheric river” and a widespread hurricane-force low-pressure system known as a “bomb cyclone.” The effects of warmer sea and air temperature brought on by climate change were starkly demonstrated by the most recent storms. Climate warning is supercharging there storms, according to California’s Secretary of Natural Resources Wade Crowfoot.

The west of the United States is still experiencing a two-decade drought despite the brief downpour. According to experts, the west would require several extraordinarily rainy years in a row to replenish aquifers and reservoirs, despite the fact that climate change has led to high temperatures, droughts and flooding.