Climate change is increasing California's wet-to-dry extremes, but average precipitation is not declining.
that concluded the Southwest, including all of California, has been in the grip of a 21st century megadrought intensified by human-caused global warming?
“Basically, we had the wettest multi-decadal period followed by the second driest multi-decadal period back to back,” Abatzoglou said. “That’s an eye-opening roller coaster.”Advertisement The rainy season is expected to be shorter and more intense, shifting the timing of peak runoff that helps fill a vast system of man-made reservoirs.warned that despite a modest increase in Northern California streamflow in coming decades, State Water Project deliveries that help supply more than 27 million Californians will go down, not up. The reason: There will be more flood flows that are difficult to capture and store.
Brad Coffey, water resource manager of the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California, the state project’s biggest customer.
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