'Significant and dangerous' storm to bring severe weather threat for southern California

Multiple storms to bring rainfall and snowfall to West Coast

A low-level terrible upwind menace goes into effect Monday for confederate California arsenic rounds of storms bring dense rainfall and feet of snowfall to the West Coast. The National Weather Service said the tempest could beryllium highly dangerous, with damaging winds and immoderate tornadoes possible. 

The National Weather Service bureau successful Los Angeles is putting radical connected alert for a "very important and dangerous" tempest that has the imaginable for flash flooding and imaginable tornadoes aboriginal this week. 

A dip successful the pitchy watercourse opens the doorway for storms bringing abundant moisture to funnel into the West Coast. 

A bid of storms volition slam the coast, delivering aggregate feet of snowfall to higher elevations, and rainfall astatine little elevations. 

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Rain volition support things precise progressive successful Southern California, wherever respective inches of rainfall could fall. 

Most of the dense rainfall is expected done the aboriginal portion of the week. 

A sneaky hazard of severe weather is ushered successful with rainfall connected Monday.    

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Right now, a level 1/5 terrible hazard is expected for Southern California. 

Damaging wind gusts and adjacent a fewer tornadoes are imaginable with this threat, according to the FOX Forecast Center. 

Additionally, flash flooding volition beryllium imaginable with the dense rain. 

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Pedestrians transverse Hollywood Boulevard nether umbrellas successful Los Angeles connected February 13, 2025. 

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Areas with pain scars from caller wildfires are particularly astatine hazard of flooding.

A level 2/4 flood hazard is successful effect starting Monday done Tuesday greeting from Los Angeles to Monterey, California. 

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By Tuesday, the menace lessens slightly, but covers a wider country down done San Diego.

Rain totals volition beryllium the highest person to the coast. 

Rain turns to snowfall further inland passim the Sierra Nevadas.