An atmospheric river storm off the coast of California has left more than 200,000 Californians without power.
The West Coast is set to be ravaged by another bomb cyclone, coming from the Pacific Ocean, which will wreak further havoc on California and the northwest, the Weather Channel reported.
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Heavy rain, flooding, snowfall, and high winds have already started to hit the Golden State, and conditions are expected to get worse. The storm has battered the state’s power grid. Poweroutage.us recorded more than 200,000 customers experiencing outages.
San Mateo County was hit hardest, with about 15% of customers reporting outages as of Wednesday night. The eastern half of the state was relatively well off, with a handful of counties experiencing no outages at all.
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The National Weather Service issued flash flood warnings for several areas in the state, including San Francisco.
The worst of the storm is expected to hit late Wednesday through Thursday. The latest atmospheric river storm is the third to hit California since late December.
