Portugal and Spain are once more dealing with the consequences of extensive inundation after Storm Claudia brought torrential downpours and powerful gusts the previous week.
This weather system developed from a low-pressure zone that had earlier ushered in early season freezing temperatures and snowfall through the eastern sectors of the Canadian territory and the American north-east during the beginning of the eleventh month.
The system tracked eastwards across the Atlantic during the second weekend of November before decelerating and halting to the northwestern area of the Iberian peninsula, trapped within a trough of an ever more meandering air current.
The northwestern Spanish region of Galicia was hit first, with a substantial 80 to 150 millimetres of rain pouring down along its west coast in just a single day up to Wednesday evening as a leisurely moving system of rain crawled across the western sectors of the peninsula.
Additional rainfall and electrical storms on the following Thursday led to floods to areas in Portugal where a senior pair lost their lives in Lisbon after water from the overflowing Tagus River invaded their residence as they rested.
Unsettled atmospheric states lasted through the weekend, with a twister devastating a camping ground and a adjacent hotel in Albufeira in southern Portugal on Saturday, killing an 85-year-old British woman and injuring two dozen and eight persons.
Claudia had broader repercussions across Europe's western part. By siphoning heated air from the warmer regions, the system helped temperatures in southwestern France to 85.6 degrees Fahrenheit, the country's highest recorded November temperature.
By the following Friday, this hot and moist atmospheric body collided with a cold air mass across more northern parts of Europe, generating a precipitation zone running from western Ireland to Russia.
In the United Kingdom, this stalling band of rain delivered exceptionally large precipitation amounts, resulting in severe flooding in the principality of Wales.
As Claudia progressively weakens at the start of the week, the frigid air will advance southward, delivering to Europe its premier experience of winter.
California encountered a plume of tropical moisture recently, delivering heavy rain and strong winds that provoked sudden inundations and debris flows in regions affected by forest fires previously in the year.
Over two inches of rain fell in southern California on last Friday, with a additional two inches broadly over the state on Saturday last.
More than 100mm of rain accumulated over coastal parts of southern California in total, attaining 200mm overall in spots on high ground.
This meteorological feature is a plume of tropical, saturated air originating from the equatorial or near-equatorial zones.
Regions previously burned including the Pacific Palisades area and the town of Altadena endured the most intense the sudden floods and landslides, prompting evacuations.
Across California, a elderly male died after his automobile was carried away from a inundated overpass, and a seven-year-old girl and her dad were dragged into the sea by large waves on the the state's central shoreline.
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