Moisture sweeping down the coast will drench much of California, including areas that burned severely just a month ago.
Hydroclimate whiplash is a term used to refer to rapid weather shifts between very wet and intensely dry, and this phenomenon is increasing around the world according to a new study reported in Nature ...
The Los Angeles fires, at least in part, are a product of this sort of “hydroclimate whiplash.” In 2023 and 2024, the city experienced unusually wet winters, which spurred the growth of ...
But to Daniel Swain, a climate scientist at U.C.L.A. and author of the Weather West blog, one significant factor already seems clear: "hydroclimate whiplash." The phenomenon is characterized by a very ...
Climate change has brought both fiercer rains and deeper droughts, leaving the city with brush like kindling—and the phenomenon is on the rise worldwide.
A new report suggests that climate change-induced factors, like reduced rainfall, primed conditions for the Palisades and Eaton fires.