An atmospheric river can be thousands of miles long and hundreds of miles wide, and carries moist air from tropical regions and dumps it across another, bringing with it heavy rain and snow.
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Several major highways and rural communities were blocked off after swelling rivers burst their banks, and creeks overflowed in Santa Cruz County, south of San Francisco.
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