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.“Rainfall today looks modest, but the system after continues to look impressive,” the service’s bureau in the San Francisco Bay Area posted on Twitter on Monday. “Winds during the Jan 4-5 rain event will increase risk of downed trees & power outages. Gusts of 35-55 mph, locally higher over ridges are possible.”
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