A powerful March storm has been lashing the West Coast with heavy rainfall, gusty winds and snowfall in the mountains –– shifting southward and posing a particular threat to communities scorched by the deadly Los Angeles wildfires from the start of the year.

A powerful storm is dropping drenching rain on flood-prone Southern California and heavy snow on the state’s mountains. It’s the first act of a storm that will unleash a severe thunderstorm outbreak,

A cross-country tornado snow blitz threatens 100 million Americans with the ‘most severe’ storm outbreak of the year. ‘Dangerous, damaging and life-threatening’ weather conditions spanning half a million square miles will smash the US into mid-month.