California continued to see heavy rainfall and flooding as an atmospheric river made its way through the state Monday morning—with rain expected to continue at least through Tuesday—causing damage in the Studio City area of Los Angeles and leaving hundreds of thousands without power.
Vehicles are damaged by a mudslide on Monday in the Beverly Crest area of Los Angeles.
The Santa Monica Mountains and Hollywood Hills are under a flash flood warning until 3 p.m. local time, the National Weather Service announced Monday, warning of “moderate to heavy showers” following the five to 10 inches of rain that had already fallen just before 10 a.m.
The NWS warned that rain, possible thunderstorms and snow in mountain areas will continue in the Los Angeles area through Tuesday night and potentially into Wednesday, when “gusty northwest winds will form.”
On Sunday, local daily rainfall records were broken across southwestern California, including in downtown Los Angeles where the previous record of 2.55 inches from 1927 was shattered by the 4.10 inches that fell.
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442,342. That’s how many customers are without power in California, as of 2:20 p.m. EST, according to Poweroutage.us. Mendocino County in northern California saw the most outages—just over 23,000—followed by other central counties. Los Angeles County had nearly 7,000 without power just after 2:20 p.m.
At least two deaths on Sunday were tied to the catastrophic weather. One person died when a tree fell on a home in Boulder Creek, California, about 30 miles from San Jose, NBC News reported, and another died in Yuba City—about 40 miles north of Sacramento—after a tree fell on him.