Record-breaking rain lashes California, with two people killed during storm in Sonoma County

The second of back-to-back atmospheric rivers, which unleashed heavy rain across Northern California this week killing two people, was set to dampen Southern California through Friday morning.

And a potentially more powerful system could douse the Southland before or around Valentine’s Day, heightening concerns for recently burned communities in Los Angeles County.

There is now a 20% chance that there could be high amounts of rain between Feb. 12 and Feb. 15, according to Ryan Kittell, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service’s Oxnard office. That’s up from a 10% chance that was forecast a day earlier…

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