The winter of 2016 to 2017 was extreme. Not only did it put an end to an extended drought in most of California, it delivered far more rain than average, and even set some rainfall records. The state experienced a different kind of extreme in 1862, when the state was pounded by storm after storm over a short period of time, which caused what some called megafloods—the likes of which we haven’t seen since. A new paper published in the research journal Nature Climate Change explores how much more likely events like these could become in California’s future . Listen to the audio for an interview with UCLA climate scientist Daniel Swain, the study’s lead author.
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