Los Angeles is burning, and accelerating hydroclimate whiplash is the key climate connection. After years of severe drought, dozens of atmospheric rivers deluged California with record-breaking ...

Additionally, the release of a hydroclimate study coincided with the terrible fires in Los Angeles; researchers proposed that cellular coordination preceded the development of multicellular ...

‘Hydroclimate Whiplash’ Worsens California’s Storms and Drought. Air made warmer by climate change is exacerbating both aridity and precipitation, leading to double-whammy weather cycles.

Hydroclimate whiplash – rapid swings between intensely wet and dangerously dry weather – has already increased globally due to climate change, with further large increases expected as warming ...

"Hydroclimate whiplash" and climate change may be key contributing factors to the severity of Southern California fires. "These are not once-in-100-year events anymore." ...

Hydroclimate whiplash is a term used to refer to rapid weather shifts between very wet and intensely dry, and this phenomenon is increasing around the world according to a new study reported in Nature ...

The real-life observations or data for the 40-year period yielded a 31 to 66% increase in global subseasonal hydroclimate whiplash frequency, which is the rate at which these whiplash events ...

Lead researcher of the study Daniel Swain, a climate scientist at UCLA, explained sudden shifts between extremely dry and wet weather, known as hydroclimate whiplash, create the ideal conditions for ...

02/24/2025 By Katharine Webster. The rapid and devastating spread of the Los Angeles fires was fueled in part by greater extremes of wet and dry weather, a pattern called “hydroclimate whiplash” or ...

“Hydroclimate whiplash” – or rapid swings between intensely dry and extremely wet periods of weather – is happening more often worldwide, according to a new study.

Los Angeles is burning, and accelerating hydroclimate whiplash is the key climate connection. After years of severe drought, dozens of atmospheric rivers deluged California with record-breaking ...