Overview

• Nine people across California have died due to the season's most significant storm, including four from fallen trees in Northern California and two from car wrecks in Southern California.
• The storm, intensified into a bomb cyclone, brought dangerous winds and historic rains, causing power outages, road closures, and flooding.
• Record-breaking rainfall in Southern California triggered hundreds of mudslides, debris flows, and forced evacuations and water rescues.
• Among the victims were individuals killed by downed trees, car accidents, a drowning in the Tijuana River, and a hospice patient in San Luis Obispo County who died after a power outage.
• The storm was fueled by El Niño, human-caused climate change, and typical winter weather patterns, highlighting the increasing severity of weather events.