China News Service San Francisco, February 5 According to the 5th local time in the United States, most of California in the United States was hit by bad weather on the 4th, and at least three people were killed in the tree falling accident.
A powerful "atmospheric river" swept through most of California on the 4th, bringing heavy rainfall, strong winds, floods and other severe weather to the local area, causing a large number of trees to fall, road closures, and damage to houses and power facilities.
According to the "Sacramento Bee" 5**, a gale with a speed of nearly 113 kilometers per hour hit the Sacramento area of Northern California on the 4th and lasted more than 8 hours. On the 5th, snow continued to fall in the Sierra Nevada, and authorities urged drivers to avoid mountain roads. That morning, San Francisco Mayor Breed said at a news conference that there had been more than 300 accidents in the city where trees fell or branches were broken. According to the meteorological department, more than 25 centimeters of rain have fallen in parts of Southern California in the last two days, and the rain will continue until the 6th.
The Los Angeles Times said on the 5th that Brian Ferguson, a spokesman for the California Governor's Office of Emergency Services, said that on the 4th, three people were killed in different tree downing accidents in Northern California. The victims were 41, 45 and 82 in Sacramento, Santa Cruz and Sutter counties.
Pacific Gas & Electric reported on the morning of the 5th that there were about 2350,000 users lost power. At 16 o'clock on the same day, there were still more than 1430,000 users lost power. U.S. Power Tracker PowerOutageAccording to data from US, as of 19:00 on the 5th, more than 280,000 customers in California were still without power.
Atmospheric rivers "are present in about 1The atmospheric water vapor dense conveyor belt at an altitude of 5 kilometers can be hundreds of kilometers wide and thousands of kilometers long. Recent studies have shown that as much as half of the precipitation on the West Coast of the United States comes from "atmospheric rivers." According to the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California, San Diego, 46 "atmospheric rivers" have made landfall on the West Coast of the United States in the last two winters. California's current severe weather is also due to the large amount of water vapor inhaled by "atmospheric rivers" in the Pacific Ocean. (ENDS).