Historic precipitation, and shattering records.
In California, Monday was the “tenth wettest day since we started recording precipitation levels in 1877,” according to Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass.
The American state is in the grip, like last year at the same time, of an “atmospheric river” nicknamed “Pineapple Express”: a vast corridor of rain which transports water vapor from the tropics from Hawaii.
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A highway of storms, in short, formidable since the rain falls on soils already saturated with water.
The National Weather Service (NWS) had predicted “urban flooding”, “rivers” overflowing their banks, as well as “landslides” for Monday.
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