Floods, snow and landslide: El Nino storm batters California
7 Jan 2016 12:27 PM IST7 Jan 2016 12:27 PM IST
Floods, snow and landslide: El Nino storm batters California
Heavy rain caused by the El Nino weather phenomenon drenched California Wednesday, but it will be nowhere near enough to reverse a historic drought.- Last month, the UN weather agency warned the phenomenon, triggered by a warming in sea surface temperatures in the Pacific Ocean, was the worst in more than 15 years.
- People enter the water near Huntington Beach Pier in Huntington Beach. El Nino storms lined up in the Pacific, promising to drench parts of the West for more than two weeks and increasing fears of mudslides and flash floods in regions stripped bare
- A home that was red-tagged due to debris flow breaking through its retaining wall is seen above a lower neighbor's property overlooking Pasadena, Calif., on Wednesday. The current El Nino system, a natural warming of the central and eastern Pacific
- "We need four years like this to recover," Eric Garcetti, mayor of Los Angeles, said in an online chat with locals.
- There was also heavy snowfall in the mountains of the Sierra Nevada, but that will not be enough to mitigate the effects of California's long dry spell.
- Mudslides damaged two homes in Pasadena, east of Los Angeles, but there were no injuries, the Los Angeles Times said.
- The US National Weather Service issued warnings of storms and floods in the counties of Los Angeles and Ventura, home to nearly 11 million people in total.
- The first major El Nino storm of the season battered southern California on Tuesday, bringing heavy rain to the drought-stricken region and causing flooding and mudslides in some areas.
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Heavy rain caused by the El Nino weather phenomenon drenched California Wednesday, but it will be nowhere near enough to reverse a historic drought.
Floods, snow and landslide: El Nino storm batters California
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