Moisture sweeping down the coast will drench much of California, including areas that burned severely just a month ago.

A new report suggests that climate change-induced factors, like reduced rainfall, primed conditions for the Palisades and ...

On Friday, the storied coastal road had dissolved into a river of mud and debris after a powerful rainstorm sent those burned ...

The Los Angeles fires, at least in part, are a product of this sort of “hydroclimate whiplash.” In 2023 and 2024, the city experienced unusually wet winters, which spurred the growth of ...

But to Daniel Swain, a climate scientist at U.C.L.A. and author of the Weather West blog, one significant factor already seems clear: "hydroclimate whiplash." The phenomenon is characterized by a very ...

It seems like merely a fact of life on the West Coast that summers are dry. But compared to most of the rest of the country ...

Faulty power lines and electrical equipment are being blamed for causing deadly fires in Los Angeles and across the U.S. Is ...

The Los Angeles fires were burning evidence of how dangerous this delusion is. The fires were a bonfire of bad ideas that had ...

Swain has said the "hydroclimate whiplash" in California has increased fire risk twofold: "First, by greatly increasing the growth of flammable grass and brush in the months leading up to fire season, ...

Swain has said the "hydroclimate whiplash" in California has increased fire risk twofold: "First, by greatly increasing the growth of flammable grass and brush in the months leading up to fire ...