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Heavy snow hits southern California

Los Angeles: Heavy snow fell in southern California on Friday, as the first blizzard in a generation pounded the Los Angeles area, with heavy rains threatening flooding in other places.

Breathless television weather presenters more used to delivering a same-every-day forecast of warm sunshine found themselves knee-deep in the white stuff as the region grappled with its worst winter storm for decades.

A vehicle clears snow in front of a restaurant in the San Gabriel Mountains in San Bernardino County near Los Angeles on February 24, 2023 in Mount Baldy, California. AFP