More than 126,000 Californians are without electricity , reports ABC News. But Reuters notes that meanwhile " more than 400,000 customers of Detroit based DTE Energy remained without power on Saturday, the Detroit News reported," suffering through "a separate storm that clobbered the U.S. Plains, Midwest and Great Lakes regions earlier this week" that finally moved over the Atlantic.And ABC News notes that as of Saturday morning, "more than 30 million Americans are under weather alerts in the West" — roughly 1 in 11 Americans — "ranging from blizzard warnings in the mountains near Los Angeles to wind chill alerts in the Northern Plains" near Wyoming. But California's problems came from its own major storm that delivered heavy snow, record rainfall, and damaging winds — a storm that "will be moving from southern California across the entire country over the next few days, eventually moving northeast by Tuesday. "Snowflakes even fell around the "Hollywood" sign, reports Reuters. But bad weather wasn't just hitting southern California:This week one political cartoonist suggested a connection between "crazy weather" and climate change

Source: Los Angeles Times February 26, 2023 20:40 UTC