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California braces for more heavy rain after days of flooding

A car drives through a flooded section of the 101 Freeway in San Francisco, which experienced its second wettest day on record on December 31, 2022 [Jeff Chiu/AP]

Weather forecasters predict another round of torrential rain in California, which has struggled to cope with flooding and power outages from an “atmospheric river” that drenched the West Coast of the United States over the weekend.

Atmospheric rivers are long columns of moving water vapour that usually release heavy rain and snow when they reach land. The US National Weather Service expects that a second atmospheric river will move in from the Pacific Ocean and bring more rain to California by late Tuesday.

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