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Search called off for 5-year-old swept away in Northern California floodwaters

CAPITOLA, Calif. — Rescuers called off the search for a 5-year-old boy swept away by floodwaters as powerful winter storms continued to pummel Northern California, causing rivers to swell to dangerous levels across the region.

Los Angeles Times

Montecito ordered to evacuate as intense storm brings flood fears to Southern California

LOS ANGELES — All of Montecito was ordered to immediately evacuate Monday afternoon as a powerful winter storm brought heavy rains, damaging winds and threats of flooding to the already-soaked region.

Los Angeles Times

‘Life-threatening’ flooding feared in Northern California as storms cause rivers to swell

MENLO PARK, Calif. — Another in a series of powerful winter storms unleashed heavy rain in Northern California on Monday, causing widespread flooding in Santa Cruz County and beyond as rivers began to swell across the region.

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Drought busters? Why Northern California storms could mean temporary relief in 2023

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — The hazardous weather bearing down on Northern California has flooded overwhelmed rivers and creeks, toppled trees and knocked out power to a storm-weary region.

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String of brutal atmospheric rivers imperils a California already weakened by drought

LOS ANGELES — A successive series of powerful atmospheric river storms poses a growing threat to California as the ground becomes more saturated, river levels rise and heavy winds threaten the power infrastructure.

Los Angeles Times

Next in "parade of atmospheric rivers" set to slam storm-hit California

Climate change is already altering these high-impact events.

Axios

A strong atmospheric river storm is inbound to California, raising flooding fears

This "will likely be one of the most impactful systems on a widespread scale ... in a long while," the NWS warns,

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Recent storms give drought-weary California cause for hope, but will they continue?

LOS ANGELES — Winter storms that doused California with much-needed rain and snow over the last week have managed to ease some dire drought conditions, but experts warned that the state still has a long way to go to truly reverse its historic dry streak.

Los Angeles Times

Two killed in northern California wildfire as firefighters continue to battle blazes

Deaths confirmed by Siskiyou sheriff on Sunday as high temperatures add to challenge for firefighters

The Guardian - US

Brutal heat dome envelops the West, bringing record-breaking temperatures

The heat could set all-time records, along with hundreds of daily milestones.

Axios

Deadly floods are wreaking global havoc

Torrential downpours claimed the lives of more than 1,000 in Pakistan, where almost half a million people are in relief camps. A massive deluge crashed across Mississippi in the past week, leaving the roughly 150,000 residents of capital city Jackson without reliable access to clean drinking water. Cascades of rain…

The Times of India

A vicious ‘heat dome’ is broiling California, and the extreme temperatures keep worsening

LOS ANGELES — The extreme temperatures that will bear down on California over the next week are the result of a “heat dome,” a phenomenon that typically brings broiling conditions to the state as summer fades into fall. But climate change is worsening the dome’s effects and making it more…

Los Angeles Times

California is at risk of a mega-flood. Are Central Valley communities prepared for it?

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — It starts to rain, and it doesn’t stop. Day after day after day. The rivers keep rising. Mud, ash and burned logs from recent wildfires clog the rapidly rising channels. Levees overtop or burst. Dams strain or buckle. Neighborhoods are submerged. Flood waters wash over freeways.

Tribune News Service

Risk of catastrophic megafloods has doubled in California, study finds

Scientists concluded that a series of storms could dump enough rainfall to displace millions, causing over $1tn in losses

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Risk of catastrophic California ‘megaflood’ has doubled due to global warming, researchers say

LOS ANGELES — Even today, as California struggles with severe drought, global warming has doubled the likelihood that weather conditions will unleash a deluge as devastating as the Great Flood of 1862, according to a UCLA study released Friday.

The Guardian - US

Why Yosemite’s Oak fire is burning with such ferocity – explained

The blaze forced more than 3,000 people to evacuate and exploded to 17,000 acres seemingly overnight – what made it so devastating?

Los Angeles Times

Oak fire near Yosemite explodes to 6,555 acres. 10 structures destroyed, thousands threatened

LOS ANGELES — A brush fire in Mariposa County showed extreme behavior as it exploded in size to 6,555 acres overnight, threatening thousands of homes and quickly becoming one of California’s largest wildfires of the year.

Tribune News Service

California’s 2022 wildfire season is off to a relatively tame start. Will it last?

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Blazes have burned thousands of acres, cued mandatory evacuations and threatened some of the state’s oldest and most impressive trees, but far fewer acres have burned in California wildfires through the first few weeks of summer than at the same point last year.

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The Guardian - US

With Yosemite’s giant sequoias at risk, firefighters place hope in prescribed burns

Treatments conducted well ahead of time may help limit damage from Washburn fire

The Independent UK

From dry to deluge, how heavy snow, rain flooded Yellowstone

A culmination of unique events led to the recent extensive flooding in the Yellowstone region

Los Angeles Times

Officials fear water restrictions will worsen fire risk in Southern California

LOS ANGELES — After losing dozens of oak trees, a guest house and a garage filled with mementos of her late husband in the 2018 Woolsey fire, Nicole Radoumis dreads the arrival of extreme fire weather amid a punishing California drought.

The Independent UK

Weather's unwanted guest: Nasty La Nina keeps popping up

La Nina, the flip side of the better known El Nino weather condition, keeps popping up

The Independent UK

EXPLAINER: How cities in the West have water amid drought

The sight of fountains, swimming pools, gardens and golf courses in Western cities like Phoenix, Los Angeles, Las Vegas, San Diego and Albuquerque can seem jarring as drought and climate change tightening their grip on the region

Salon

Climate whiplash explains weather events

"Climate whiplash" describes how on a warming planet weather events seesaw between extremes

The Independent UK

Fire and rain: West to get more one-two extreme climate hits

A new study says the West is going to get more one-two punches of nasty wildfires followed by extreme rainfall as the world warms

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