The California coast is currently experiencing heavy rain from atmospheric rivers, which are essentially rivers in the sky that collect moisture from tropical areas and redistribute the water to higher latitudes. The current El Niño pattern is also contributing to multiple rounds of heavy rain and overall unsettled, rainy weather, according to forecasts.
This relentless moisture has caused life-threatening flooding in some of the most populous cities in Southern California, including Los Angeles and San Diego, which were already saturated from a previous round of torrential
