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Crazy weather in California

Tuesday 05 August 2014 09:08 BST

The Sun begins to peek out from below a layer of smoke blowing north from fires in southern Oregon and Northern California as it sets on the Willamette Valley near Eugene, Ore. (AP Photo/The Register-Guard, Chris Pietsch) (AP Photo/The Register-Guard)

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(Top) Full water levels are visible in the Bidwell Marina at Lake Oroville in Oroville, California. (Bottom) Low water levels are visible in the Bidwell Marina at Lake Oroville on 19 August 2014 in Oroville, California

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(Top) The Green Bridge passes over full water levels at a section of Lake Oroville near the Bidwell Marina in Oroville, California, in 2011. (Bottom) The Green Bridge passes over low water levels at a section of Lake Oroville near the Bidwell Marina on 19 August, 2014 in Oroville, California

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(Top) Full water levels are visible in the Bidwell Marina at Lake Oroville on on July 20, 2011 in Oroville, California. (Photo by Paul Hames/California Department of Water Resources via Getty Images) OROVILLE, CA - AUGUST 19: (Bottom) Low water levels are visible in the Bidwell Marina at Lake Oroville on August 19, 2014 in Oroville, California

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The Sun begins to peek out from below a layer of smoke blowing north from fires in southern Oregon and Northern California as it sets on the Willamette Valley near Eugene, Ore

AP Photo/The Register-Guard

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Members of the CAL Fire Vina Helitack crew battle a spot fire as the fast-moving wildfire called "Sand Fire" burns near Plymouth, California

REUTERS/Max Whittaker

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Highway 120 in and out of Yosemite National Park is closed due to firefighting efforts on the El Portal Fire burning in the Stanislaus National Forest and Yosemite National Park in California

EPA/Stuart Palley

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An air tanker drops retardant on the fast-moving wildfire called "Sand Fire" near Plymouth, California

REUTERS/Max Whittaker

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An aircraft drops fire retardant on a vineyard as firefighters battle the fast-moving wildfire called "Sand Fire," near Plymouth, California

REUTERS/Max Whittaker

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Trees in Yosemite National Park are backlit by a sun turned orange by smoke from the El Portal Fire burning in the Stanislaus National Forest and Yosemite National Park in California, USA

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Marin County firefighter Brett Grayson walks through a vineyard looking for spot fires from the fast-moving wildfire called "Sand Fire," near Plymouth, California. The fire, which started Friday, has burned 5 homes, 1300 acres, and is 20 percent contained, local media reported

REUTERS/Max Whittaker

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One man died and 14 people were injured after a freak storm hit beachgoers

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A burn mark is seen on the walls of a home that was hit by a lightning strike on Haynes Lane in a residential area of Redondo Beach, California

REUTERS/Jonathan Alcorn

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Shasta Dam, the largest Dam in California and the second largest in the United States as shown with Shasta Lake and Mt. Shasta in the background in Shasta Lake City, California

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A woman shops for grapes at Monterey Park's Friday evening Farmers Market in Monterey Park, California. With the first six month of 2014 the hottest ever in California, the devastation of crops from California's drought is pushing household grocery bills higher as fewer acres of land are being used for planting and crop yields shrink as available water dwindles

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A motorboat cruises along the McCloud River Arm of Shasta Lake in Lakehead, California, USA. Water levels are 41 meters (135 ft) from crest and 36 per cent of capacity as California goes through its third straight year of dry weather

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A tire along the Sacramento River Arm of Shasta Lake in Lakehead, California. California Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr., has declared a drought state of emergency and asking consumers to conserve 20 per cent of water. Mandatory conservations is now in effect in some counties

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In search of his stray shot a golfer walks onto the cracked lake surface of the drought affected Laguna Blanca at La Cumbre Country Club in Goleta, California

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At the start of August thunderstorms caused floods and mudslides in the south of the state at San Bernardino County, killing one person and leaving thousands stranded

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"Valley Of The Falls Drive and Mill Creek crossing is typically a two-lane road, now covered by runoff" the San Bernardino County Fire Department tweeted, showing the damage caused by the storms and floods

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Stranded campers receive meals and shelter at a community center staffed by San Bernardino County Fire Department volunteers and others

San Bernardino County Fire Department

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An official of the Forest Home Christian Conference Center in Forest Falls, California, inspects damage on the property following thunderstorms on Sunday

AP Photo/The Press-Enterprise, David Bauman

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