California faces three new storms in wake of atmospheric river event: Live

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Weather officials say there is “concern” for Los Angeles County ahead of a new atmospheric river weather system that threatens to bring more potential destruction to the area.

The National Weather Service (NWS) Los Angeles says that overly saturated ground – a result of recent poor weather and flooding – may raise the chances of further landslides in and around LA. The worst of the coming storms is expected between Sunday and Wednesday next week.

Meteorologist Ryan Kittell said the heavy storms would make the ground “extra sensitive”. “This event will probably be more [around] one to four inches, so significantly less,” he told The Independent.

“But the big unknown is that a lot of the ground is what we call saturated, where it’s waterlogged. It’s got as much water as it can hold because of all that rain last week.

“So it won’t take much for additional issues to occur – far less than than a typical storm needs. So even with that less rain, we could still see significant issues.

Recent atmospheric river storms in California caused devastation across the state, which caused flash flooding and hundreds of devastating mudslides.

Dry conditions are expected through the remainder of this week and into the first part of the weekend in the Los Angeles County area, the National Weather Service has said, ahead of another bout of storms.

According to the forecaster, temperatures will be near to slightly above normal for Friday, cooling to slightly below normal on Saturday.

A large, strong, and slow-moving Pacific storm system will be making gradual eastward progress toward the California coast by late this weekend and into next week.

After an initial round of light showers spreads across the Central Coast vicinity on Saturday afternoon and night, the storm system is expected to bring multiple rounds of heavy rain and perhaps a few thunderstorms, gusty winds, cooler temperatures, and high-elevation snow from Sunday night through next Wednesday.

After parts of the East Coast weathered their own brutal snow storms, civilians were reminded to take care on Thursday and Friday even as the weather subsided.

A National Weather Service (NWS) hazardous weather outlook is for southern Connecticut and southeast New York predicted slippery conditions.

“Snow accumulations forecast of near 0.5 to 1 inch will stick to untreated surfaces, causing slippery conditions and potential impacts to late evening commutes as well as Friday morning commutes,” the forecaster said.

The NWS added that over the next week hazardous weather was not expected at this time that would meet its warning criteria.

Devastating storms battered the West Cost over previous weeks, bringing death and destruction to major cities including Los Angeles.

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A massive landslide on a coastal bluff has left a Southern California mansion on the edge of a cliff, but authorities have determined that the ocean-view home and neighboring residences are not in immediate danger.

The slide occurred last week in the city of Dana Point after back-to-back drenching storms that also caused numerous mud and debris flows throughout the region.

The city’s building inspector assessed the residential structures and a geotechnical engineer observed the slide site, the city said in a statement Wednesday.

UC Berkeley Central Sierra Snow Laboratory reported that it had already received 13 inches of snow in the last 24 hours, with more expected.

The lab, located in Soda Springs in northern California, said its storm total of snowfall was now up to 14.2 inches.

“We are now at 85% of median snowfall and 83% of median snow water equivalent to date. More on the way!” the lab wrote on X.

The Marine Corps released the names of the five Marines killed when their CH-53E Super Stallion helicopter went down in the mountains outside San Diego during a historic storm. All of them were in their 20s.

The decorated Marines were assigned to Marine Heavy Helicopter Squadron 361, Marine Aircraft Group 16, 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing and were based at Marine Corps Air Station Miramar in San Diego.

“We have been confronted with a tragedy that is every service family’s worst fear,” said Lt. Col. Nicholas J. Harvey, commanding officer of the squadron. “The Flying Tigers family stands strong and includes the friends and community who have supported our squadron during this challenging time. We will get through this together.”

The military confirmed last Thursday that all five Marines were killed when their helicopter went down during stormy weather, and efforts were underway to recover their remains, which will take weeks because of the rough terrain and weather, said Col. James C. Ford, operations officer with 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing.

In the meantime, Marines are staying with the remains round-the-clock to adhere to their ethos of never leaving any Marine behind.