The Golden State has a long history of cataclysmic floods. By Jeff Masters, Yale Climate Connections California’s climate-change-and-El Niño-intensified extreme weather siege may only be beginning. After the state endured its hottest year-to-date period on record and a multi-million-dollar battering...
By Harrison Tasoff, UC Santa Barbara Anxiety is high over this year’s El Niño. It’s breaking records, and hasn’t even peaked. So how does El Niño work? What might Southern Californians expect? And how can we prepare for a potentially...
From the Department of Water Resources: Today marks the start of Water Year 2027 in California and the Department of Water Resources (DWR) is preparing for potential extreme weather emergencies while positioning the State to capture and store as much...
From the USGS: In a new publication, the 2022-2024 Climate Adaptation Postdoctoral Fellows cohort explores how climate-driven low-flows in rivers alter water quality, how those water quality changes influence ecosystem health, and how instream flow management has been used across...
Scripps Oceanography scientists share how El Nino mean for the California coastline By Lauren Fimbres Wood, Scripps Institution of Oceanography El Niño is defined by the persistence of warm water in the Pacific Ocean at the equator. This warm water has...
