Tropical StormHilary dumped inches of rain on Southern Californiaon Sunday, with some areas seeing rainfall totals that almost met their average rainfall total for the year. Palm Springs usually seesjust 4.85 inches of raina year. Hilary, however, dropped a whopping 3.18 inches...
"This year is crucial," said Michael Hanemann, professor and environmental economist at the W.P Carey School of Business at Arizona State University. "A third winter of low rain would be extremely painful," he said. "If we have one or two dry winters we can get through that. But the ...
More than 2 inches of rain were recorded at the San Francisco International Airport on Monday. Since October, San Francisco has seen 25.6 inches of rain — nearly 2 inches more than the city usually gets in an entire year. Thisextreme weatherin Northern California came after powerful rain move...
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(or magnitude) of thetransition between wet and dry states. Consider, for example, the increased risk of debris flows in steep terrain following severe droughts or intense wildfires when torrential rain falls on parched or burned soils; even wildfire risk itself can be accentuated by swings from...
This graphic shows the top rain totals in February in Los Angeles.( ) So far, downtown Los Angeles has seen 12.56 inches of rain in February, more than an inch below the top total of 13.68 inches set in February 1998. The National Weather Service office in Los Angeles issued a storm ...
On the wetter side of the storm, the typically-dry communities of Moreno Valley and Riverside (Orangecrest) both received the highest rain totals this week - with 0.31 inches in Moreno Valley and 0.15 inches in Riverside's Orangecrest, respectively. Mild, somewhat unsettled weather continued ...
The latest storms have also brought enough rain to push the state’s total precipitation to slightly above average for this time of year. And California’s major reservoirs, which were filled spectacularly by last year’s historic wet winter, are still at 118% of their average levels. ...
Normally, at this time of the year, the fields would be covered in lush green grass, but the western U.S. states' worst drought in decades has reduced the land to a parched moonscape, leaving the 55-year-old father-of-four praying for rain. ...
I don’t think rain is that unusual this time of year in Taos, but the roof was leaking like a sieve. I called maintenance, and a very young kid said they couldn’t fix it, handed me two buckets, and left. So that’s how we moved to Texas. The Texas-themed room, I mean. ...