US West Coast battered as 'Pineapple Express' storms hits
Los Angeles (AFP) Feb 1, 2024
The US West Coast was getting drenched Thursday as the first of two powerful storms moved in, part of a "Pineapple Express" weather pattern that was washing out roads and sparking flood warnings. An atmospheric river was dumping heavy rain and snow over a wide swath of the region, ferrying tropical moisture from the ocean near Hawaii - a weather phenomenon named after the tropical fruit tha