This Sunday, the storm will begin to move through the state of Arizona, accompanied by new rain and snow in northern California.
More than 126,000 residents of the U.S. state of California have been left without power in the last few hours by the massive snowstorm that will shake almost all of its counties, as well as neighboring states, throughout this weekend and Monday.
As of yesterday morning, more than 30 million Americans are under weather alerts in the West, ranging from blizzard warnings in the mountains near Los Angeles to wind chill alerts in the northern plains.
The storm finished accumulating moisture on Friday to become a “moderate” atmospheric river, which has compounded its effects and dumped extreme amounts of precipitation, Elizabeth Schenk, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in San Diego, has told the ‘Los Angeles Times’.
This Sunday, the storm will begin to move through the state of Arizona, accompanied by a new rain and snow to northern California, with precipitation from Sacramento to north of Seattle, to move eastward from there, with severe weather threatening the states of Oklahoma, Texas and Kansas.
Similar storms hit California earlier this winter, leaving 20 people dead and extensive property damage.