Sentences with phrase «california rainfall records»

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In California, «Records are limited, but from what we have for the last 50 years, rainfall has become more variable,» says Todd Dawson, a professor of integrative biology at the University of California at Berkeley.

During its reign, this El Niño boosted rainfall California, hastened coral bleaching and helped make 2015 the hottest year on record.

WHEREAS Statewide rainfall has been below normal in 2007 and 2008, with many Southern California communities receiving only 20 percent of normal rainfall in 2007, and Northern California this year experiencing the driest spring on record with most communities receiving less than 20 percent of normal rainfall from March through May; and

Dam engineers in California stated they had never experienced the confluence of such events (record rainfall, busted main spillway, blocked penstock through power station and threat of emergency spillway collapse).

After six years of drought, California was deluged in 2017 by sequential «atmospheric rivers» causing the highest January / February rainfall on recent record.

From historic droughts around the world and in places like California, Syria, Brazil and Iran to inexorably increasing glacial melt; from an expanding blight of fish killing and water poisoning algae blooms in lakes, rivers and oceans to a growing rash of global record rainfall events; and from record Arctic sea ice volume losses approaching 80 percent at the end of the summer of 2012 to a rapidly thawing permafrost zone explosively emitting an ever - increasing amount of methane and CO2, it's already a disastrous train - wreck.

During an atmospheric river event in southern California on February 17 — 18, new rainfall records were set in Death Valley (0.65 inches) and Santa Barbara (4.16 inches).

The warming records that article talks about are one offs, and beat by a slim temporary margin, whereas things like the California droughts are historical and mostly in a desert area already, which was charged up by heavy rainfall this spring, which led to so many ladder fuels to burn when it inevitably dries out by mid summer to late fall.

Hit by record droughts and rainfall and wildfires, California leads the way in tackling global warming.

It takes more than snow and rainfall to keep California's taps flowing; it demands energy and lots of it, particularly during a record - setting drought.