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Even on the heels of an unusual winter of intense rain, wind and snow, the storm that slammed California on Tuesday came with some surprising conditions.The storm was marked by powerful winds in the Bay Area and other parts of Central and Northern California that downed trees, created treacherous commuting conditions, broke windows in downtown San Francisco and caused power outages.

A new powerful storm will hit Southern California this week, the latest in an epic year of rain and snow.Here is a breakdown of what to expect and when the rain will end.Timeline
Tuesday: Storm conditions will intensify in the Los Angeles area and across much of the Southland."It really hits us hard tomorrow - that's when we're going to get the heaviest rain, the strongest winds and the heaviest snow in the mountains," National Weather Service meteorologist David Sweet said Monday.

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Southern Californians yearning for sunshine can instead expect another week of June gloom, with a chance of thunderstorms and showers on the horizon.A cloudy weather pattern across the Los Angeles area is expected to last until at least Thursday, when there's a small chance of some clearing, according to the National Weather Service.

A monthslong investigation into a series of Navy suicides last year found the service failed to provide a basic quality of life for sailors, housing them in unacceptable living conditions and failing to provide adequate mental health resources.The investigation concluded that the issues were compounded on the USS George Washington, a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier going through overhaul in the Newport News shipyard in Virginia, because of the lengthy refit process, which was delayed as the Navy shifted its priorities to other ships.

A single home is illuminated during a power outage in the Arabi neighborhood of New Orleans in March 2022.(Brandon Bell/Getty Images)Comment Gift Article When extreme weather rolls through an area, a power outage may be on its heels.And some U.S. communities are at particular risk from power grid failures, research suggests - especially as human-caused climate change progresses.

Russia fired cruise missiles and Iranian-made kamikaze drones at Ukrainian targets overnight, triggering air raid alerts across the country, the Ukrainian Air Force said on Sunday.The drones and missiles were launched from aircraft and Black Sea warships, the military said.Twenty-five drones, most of them of the Iranian Shahed-136/131 type, and three cruise missiles were shot down by Ukrainian defenses, it added.

Ukraine said on Friday that its forces had made significant advances around the embattled city of Bakhmut in the eastern Donetsk region, which has been the epicenter of fighting with Russia for months."The enemy has suffered great losses of manpower.Our defense forces advanced 2 kilometers (around 1 mile) near Bakhmut.

Ganna Nikitina wears her trademark red full-body suit.Her face is covered.It's the singer's first show on a Belgian stage with Ukrainian electro punk band Ragapop.Under other circumstances, the band probably wouldn't have been invited to play in Brussels, but these are unusual times a war rages in Nikitina's native Ukraine, and Europe is showing solidarity.

The medal for this year's best overall contribution to the London Design Biennale has gone to the Polish pavilion, which explores cross-border collaboration and the reframing of everyday objects in times of crisis.The Poetics of Necessity installation is based on an ongoing project from Fundacja BRDA, a non-profit that has collected more than 12,000 windows from households and businesses across Poland to help rebuild homes damaged by the war in Ukraine.

Rising electricity costs, power outages, extreme weather, these aren't a distant figment of fiction anymore.Regardless of where you live, all of these are a reality, and sure, we can adopt new forms of energy and build more reliable power systems for ensuring our sustenance... or, we could just be very smart with how we leverage existing technologies to live our lives comfortably in an energy-efficient way.

PG&E admitted that the power outages from Tuesday's storms knocked out power for 450,000 customers statewide, the largest outage in 28 years.This is the most impactful storm that we have seen in terms of customers out in a single day in the Bay Area since 1995, PG&E COO Sumeet Singh said at a press conference.

Yevgeny Prigozhin, chief of the infamous mercenary force known as the Wagner Group, said on Wednesday that his forces and their equipment have been "badly damaged" in the months-long campaign for control of the small but strategically important city of Bakhmut in eastern Ukraine."The battle for Bakhmut today has already practically destroyed the Ukrainian army, and unfortunately, it has also badly damaged the Wagner Private Military Company," he said in an audio message, according to Reuters news agency.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Wednesday that he had invited Chinese President Xi Jinping to visit his country."We are ready to see him here," Zelenskyy told the Associated Press.Xi, who recently visited his "dear friend" Russian President Vladimir Putin on a state visit to Moscow, has not spoken with Zelenskyy since Russia launched its invasion on February 24, 2022.

A powerful winter storm system will strengthen over the Pacific, bringing damaging winds, rain, and heavy mountain snow to an already soaked California beginning Monday night.Preceding storms have saturated soils which will result in trees coming down and the potential for more power outages, National Weather Service San Francisco meteorologist Roger Grass told CNN.

More rain is coming to California this week.A low-pressure system coming from the Gulf of Alaska is set to bring rainfall across Northern California early in the week and slowly move south, said Chelsea Peters, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Sacramento.Though it would typically be considered one of the more run-of-the mill storms, on top of such an already wet winter, the rainfall and gusty winds may cause hazardous driving conditions, roadway flooding, power outages and fallen trees or branches, weather officials said.