The state has hot summers and mild winters, as well as a great deal of precipitation year round. (carinsurancerates.com)
The fact that the occurrence of warm and moderately dry years approaches that of moderately dry years in the last decades of the Historical experiment (Fig. 3 B and C) and that 91 % of negative precipitation years in 1995 — 2014 co-occurred with warm anomalies (Fig. 1B) suggests possible emergence of a regime in which nearly all dry years co-occur with warm conditions. (pnas.org)
«Warming in California has made it more probable that when a low precipitation year occurs, it occurs in warm conditions and is more likely to produce severe drought,» said lead study author Noah Diffenbaugh, an associate professor in the School of Earth Sciences at Stanford. (livescience.com)