Map Shows California Cities Getting Hit Hardest by Huge Rainstorm
Several cities in Southern California are expecting heavy bouts of rain Wednesday through Friday, with the flash flood risk increased in burned areas. In January, several massive wildfires tore ...
‘Built to burn.’ L.A. let hillside homes multiply without learning from past mistakes
Los Angeles County keeps building in hillsides and canyons even as the fire risk worsens. For a century, the lure of ...
Record-breaking rain lashes California, with two people killed during storm in Sonoma County
After a relatively weak storm expected to arrive in L.A. late Thursday, forecasters say a potentially more powerful storm ...
'Pineapple express' storm arrives in Southern California after pounding the Bay Area
The first of two "pineapple express" storms has arrived in Southern California after delivering a stronger-than-expected ...
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Residents Struggle to Recover from 2020 Santa Cruz Mountains Fire
(TNS) — Just a month after she bought her red-doored dream home, Ana Wold’s little gray Boulder Creek house burned to the ground in the 2020 Santa Cruz Mountains firestorm. Now she’s walking ...
Satellite data study pinpoints areas sinking and rising along California coast
Tracking and predicting sea level rise involves more than measuring the height of our oceans: Land along coastlines also ...
Google Maps Shows True Devastation of California Wildfires as Total Cost of the Damage Is Revealed
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‘Absolute hell’: Residents struggle against nature, bureaucrats, banks and builders to recover from 2020 Santa Cruz Mountains inferno
Just a month after she bought her red-doored dream home, Ana Wold’s little gray Boulder Creek house burned to the ground in the 2020 Santa Cruz Mountains firestorm. Now she’s walking away from ...
Rains hit SoCal for much of this week. Why it's probably not a fire killer
Back-to-back atmospheric river storms are set to hit Los Angeles County this week — giving the region much-needed moisture ahead of another potential round of Santa Ana winds.
Chance of strong atmospheric river storm grows, as does risk of mudslides in L.A. burn scars
The second of back-to-back atmospheric rivers hit Southern California early Friday, bringing heavy rain to some parts of Los Angeles County and triggering floods, rockslides and minor debris flows in ...
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Here's how the Santa Ana winds form ... and turn Southern California into a tinderbox
Santa Ana winds can occur when the pressure gradient caused by a high-pressure region over the Rockies, in combination with friction, forces air from the mountainous West down the San Gabriel ...