The next bout of heavy showers and gusty winds was expected to arrive in the San Francisco Bay area on Friday night and expand across northern California and into southern Oregon through Saturday, the National Weather Service said.
The ominous forecast comes on the heels of a massive Pacific storm that unleashed hurricane-force wind gusts, pounding surf, soaking rains and heavy snow across California for two days.As of Friday morning, some 60 000 homes and businesses remained without electricity in several northern California counties because of the weather, according to data from Poweroutages.us.
The two-day storm, which ended Thursday night, was powered by an immense atmospheric stream of moisture from the tropical Pacific and a sprawling, hurricane-scale low-pressure system known as a bomb cyclone.Research predicts that climate change is increasing the frequency and intensity of such rain storms, punctuating extensive periods of extreme drought.
Meanwhile in South Africa, Eskom_SA will just send a tweet saying the coal is wet, stage 6. Sorry baba