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Coming up on forum, a winter storm that's expected to roll through parts of California beginning today has already prompted evacuation orders near recent burn areas in Santa Cruz County.

Forecasters say the atmospheric river storm could bring torrential rain and intense winds

and up to 10 feet of snow to the Sierra Nevada by the end of the week. We look at the dangers the weather system poses

and how climate change is exacerbating these severe weather events.

As climate data this month confirm,

2020 is virtually tied with 2016

for the hottest year ever recorded on Earth.

This is Forum. I'm Mina Kim.

Santa Cruz County ordered the evacuation of nearly 5,000 residents yesterday ahead of torrential storms expected to hit the Bay Area and Central Coast later today. A storm that battered Southern California Monday closed the grapevine in a major vaccination site in San Diego.

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