The storm came on the heels of a ferocious downpour on New Year's Eve, which had left the ground sodden and waterlogged
Central and northern parts of the state were walloped overnight on Wednesday as a bomb cyclone, fuelled by a moisture-laden atmospheric river, unleashed torrents of rain on already-soaked ground.
Heavy snow will continue to fall over the mountains of Utah into Friday. The next in a parade of Atmospheric Rivers is expected to arrive late Friday into California. Heavy rainfall will lead to additional flooding and heavy mountain snow is expected in the Sierras. pic.twitter.com/TCZT2QrlRt "As the overall wet pattern remains locked in place over the West Coast, the next surge of moisture to move inland is forecast to enter northern California and southwest Oregon late Friday.
While it is difficult to draw a straight line to these storms from human-caused climate change, scientists say a warmer planet brings more unstable weather, with more powerful and wetter events as well as longer, hotter dry periods.The parched landscape -- which has been ravaged by fires -- is particularly vulnerable to flash flooding and mudslides, with burn scars denuded of the trees and vegetation that would ordinarily keep hillsides intact.
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