California hit with intense monsoonal storm
August is off to a sticky, wet start as a monsoon flow dogs California. Some parts of the state saw heavy rainfall over the last few days, while others endured flash floods and debris flows. … Monsoonal showers and thunderstorms could pass over the mountains in Los Angeles and Ventura counties, along with the Antelope Valley, according to forecasts….In the San Francisco Bay Area, meteorologists are watching for thunder as storms travel east from the coast. Meteorologist Sarah McCorkle with the National Weather Service in Monterey said downtown San Francisco saw one of its wettest Julys in recent years.
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