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A flash flood warning has been issued for Southern California, including Los Angeles, as heavy rains approach. The National Weather Prediction Centre warns of flash floods. The evacuation warnings are issued for burn scar areas,
The greater Los Angeles area could likely see more than a normal November months' worth of rain within a 24 hour period with this storm.
In less than 24 hours, California experienced nearly a dozen weather and natural events - heavy rain, flooding, lightning, snow, high winds, landslides, fog, blowing dust, wildfires, a rainbow and an earthquake. And this came just one day after the aurora illuminated skies across the state and much of the nation.
A storm is dropping rounds of heavy rain on more than 22 million people across Southern California on Saturday.
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See 5-day rainfall totals for Los Angeles County
The second wave of a mid-November storm that arrived earlier this week in Southern California brought hours of rain Friday and Saturday for much of the region. Rainfall that began with scattered showers Friday intensified at the start of the weekend,