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Clouds are disappearing in Southern California, and we’re not totally sure why

sudshr47 May 31, 2018

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Clouds above Los Angeles are vanishing.

A new study recently published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters suggests that summer clouds over Southern California have dwindled as both increasing temperatures and heat-radiated from urban sprawl have driven clouds away.

“Cloud cover is plummeting in southern coastal California,” Park Williams, a bioclimatologist at Columbia University and lead author of the research, said in a statement.

“Clouds that used to burn off by noon or 1 o’clock are now gone by 10 [a.m.] or 11 [a.m.], if they form at all,” Williams said. Read more…

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Mangled cars show the raw destructive power of California mudslides

sudshr47 January 12, 2018

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If anyone doubted the sheer destructive power of the mudslides that have devastated Southern California this week, a video posted to Instagram Thursday should hammer the point home.

The video, which was uploaded by The Knight Show podcast and verified by Storyful, hovers over two utterly mangled blobs of crushed steel and twisted plastic on Hammonds Beach in Santa Barbara. 

One of the unlucky cars, which had made a trip down Montecito Creek following heavy rain in the region, was apparently an H3 Hummer.

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Destructive rainfall pummels Southern California after massive wildfires

sudshr47 January 10, 2018

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After the fires, the rain. Southern California has been drenched in torrential showers for several days and the deluge has hit areas recently scarred by huge wildfires.

LA’s National Weather Service office reports rainfall of over six inches in just three days for areas in Ventura and LA county, with ten other regions receiving over 4 inches.

The resulting mud bath has been described by one sheriff in Santa Barbara County as similar to “a World War I battlefield”, with “a carpet of mud and debris everywhere.” 

At least 15 people have died amid evacuation orders while many homes have been completely washed away. Cars have been plucked out of gloopy swamps and roads have been closed. Read more…

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Surreal scenes of devastation across Southern California from unrelenting wildfires

sudshr47 December 6, 2017

At least three fires are devastating Southern California, devouring Ventura and Santa Ana counties with flames, and stifling surrounding counties, including Los Angeles, with smoke. 
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