Climate and environment updates: Fires would have been extreme without climate change
In a new quick-turn analysis, UCLA climate scientists found that climate change could be responsible for roughly a quarter of the extreme vegetation dryness present when the Palisades and Eaton fires began. But they say the fires would still have been extreme even without that moisture deficit.
New research from UC scientists links intensifying wet and dry swings to the atmosphere's sponge-like ability to drop and ...
Hydroclimate whiplash -- the rapid shift between wet and dry conditions -- likely contributed to the severity of the ...
“Hydroclimate whiplash” – or rapid swings between intensely dry and extremely wet periods of weather – is happening more ...
A report by by the World Weather Attribution (WWA) looks at climate change and the likelihood of wildfire disaster in LA. Prof Gabi Hegerl FRS, Professor of Climate System Science, University of ...
Hydroclimate whiplash is a term to refer to rapid weather shifts between very wet and intensely dry, and this phenomenon is increasing around the world ... | Earth And The Environment ...
Climate change has brought both fiercer rains and deeper droughts, leaving the city with brush like kindling—and the ...
These extreme 'whiplash' cycles can worsen wildfires, as we saw in the LA fires, which ended with a high human cost ...
If you grew up in Southern California, you don’t need a weatherperson to know which way the Santa Ana winds blow.
The following is an excerpt from a recent article on the Weather West Blog Note: This special Weather West article focuses on ...
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