Heavy rain and snow over the winter helped alleviate the state’s long dry spell.
    • mean_bean279@lemmy.worldEnglish
      15·
      1 year ago

      More of the wettest winter we’ve had on record in nearly 50 years. The tropical storm just finished off the remaining areas that were under a drought watch.

  • wrath-sedan@kbin.social
    16·
    1 year ago

    Alex Hall, a professor of atmospheric and oceanic science at the University of California, Los Angeles, said that dry and wet weather events have been made worse, or “juiced,” by climate change.
    “The net effect is we do have much deeper extremes,” Dr. Hall said. “It’s boomier and bustier. People have used the word ‘whiplash’ before.”

    When your climate change-induced natural disasters cancel each other out.

  • MurvelEnglish
    21·
    1 year ago

    Non-paywalled version anyone?

  • Knusper@feddit.deEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    Yesterday, I read an article¹, where it says in the context of this year’s astronomical ocean temperatures:

    “The land tends to warm up more than the ocean, but if the ocean is so warm, you essentially start having very high temperatures and dry conditions because the ocean is evaporating and raining on itself,” Dr Bracco said.

    As I understand this, normally it would rain near the coast, because that’s where the ocean would heat up the most, under pre-climate-change conditions. And that’s now out of wonk, generally leading to droughts.

    Maybe California is for whatever reason in an inversed situation, where their rainfall likeliness is actually improved by the hot oceans…

    ¹ The article, very much not uplifting: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-08-21/ocean-tempertature-records-2023/102701172