Welcome to the Daily Weather Update from FOX Weather. It’s Monday, Feb. 5, 2024, and it’s National Weatherperson’s Day! Start your day with everything you need to know about today’s weather. You can also get a quick briefing on national, regional and local weather whenever you like with the FOX Weather Update podcast.
A dangerous atmospheric river storm continues to lash Southern California on Monday as Los Angeles faces a life-threatening “high risk” of flash flooding for the second straight day.
Forecasters are expecting extreme impacts from flooding rain, damaging winds, mudslides and debris flows, while hurricane-force winds and whiteout conditions will blast the mountains.
The storm has already dumped several inches of rain across the region, and the FOX Forecast Center said additional rainfall totals of 1-3 inches are expected, with locally higher amounts of 5-8 inches possible in parts of Southern California.
Landslides, rockslides, mudslides and high-water rescues have already been reported, and the National Weather Service office in Los Angeles has warned that an “extremely dangerous situation” has been unfolding in the Hollywood Hills and around the Santa Monica Mountains.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom declared a State of Emergency for several counties in Southern California to help support storm response and recovery efforts.
The Plains to the Upper Midwest could see record-high temperatures this week as a weather pattern brings plenty of warm air to the region.
The FOX Forecast Center expects high temperatures to be 10-25 degrees above average for this time of year, equating to temperatures in the 50s and 60s.
Two Kodiak bear cubs native to southern Alaska were found wandering on a rural Florida roadway, and the incident was all captured on camera.
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