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"content": "\u003cp>A remarkably wet kickoff to Northern California’s rainy season has coincided with a desperately dry fall in Southern California — a huge disparity, perhaps \u003ca href=\"https://weatherwest.com/archives/43171\">unprecedented\u003c/a>, between the haves and have-nots of rainfall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Los Angeles usually gets several inches of rain by now, halfway into the rainy season, but it’s only recorded a fifth of an inch downtown since July, its second driest period in almost \u003ca href=\"https://www.laalmanac.com/weather/we131b.php\">150 years of record-keeping\u003c/a>. The rest of Southern California is just as bone-dry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the same time, much of the northern third of the state has weathered nearly two months of storms, flooding and even tornadoes. Santa Rosa, north of San Francisco, has received more rain than nearly any other city in California — nearly two times its average rainfall to date. At the city’s airport, almost 7 inches fell on Nov. 20 alone, an all-time daily record.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Northern California is always wetter than the semi-arid southern half. But the scale of the north-south gap that has persisted for several months has stunned experts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There have been few if any years since 1895 … that have been so much above-normal in the northern part of the state while simultaneously so dry in the south,” Daniel Swain, a UCLA climate scientist, wrote in his blog \u003ca href=\"https://weatherwest.com/\">Weather West\u003c/a>. He added, in an email exchange with CalMatters, that “it is likely that the current north-south disparity is record-breaking in magnitude by at least some metrics.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This season’s stark imbalance isn’t bad in terms of water supply. That’s because Northern California’s rain and snow feed major reservoirs, which provide much of the water used by Californians. If this occurred in reverse — a wet south and a dry north — most of the water would remain uncaptured, providing little benefit for supplies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://cdec.water.ca.gov/reportapp/javareports?name=swccond.pdf\">Snowfall to date (PDF)\u003c/a> has followed a similar pattern, with relatively heavy snowpack accumulating in the northern Sierra Nevada and substantially below-average levels in the southern Sierra.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/W7BDQ/3/\" width=\"800\" height=\"750\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All of Southern California, between Kern County and the borders with Arizona and Mexico, is experiencing \u003ca href=\"https://www.drought.gov/states/california\">moderate to extreme drought\u003c/a> so far this season. The dryness, along with fierce Santa Ana winds, ignited two major fast-moving wildfires in Los Angeles County on Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But while the latest forecasts predict dry weather for at least the next 12 days, water suppliers aren’t panicking. They say thanks to ample precipitation two years in a row, their reservoirs and groundwater basins are brimming with water to supply Southern Californians.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In terms of water reliability and water supply at this moment in Southern California, things are looking pretty solid,” said Mike McNutt of the Las Virgenes Municipal Water District, which serves 75,000 people in northwest Los Angeles County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition, demand in the district has declined since the 2020 drought year by 23%, McNutt said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Statewide, average per capita water use has declined sharply \u003ca href=\"https://www.ppic.org/publication/water-use-in-california/\">since the 1990s\u003c/a> in spite of a growing population. Last July, state officials approved controversial and costly \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/environment/water/2024/07/california-water-conservation-rules-adopted/\">mandatory conservation rules\u003c/a> that force 405 cities and other urban suppliers serving about 95% of Californians to meet individualized water budgets that decline over time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Orange County Water District Chief Hydrogeologist Roy Herndon said his agency, which supplies groundwater to the north half of the county, has enough supply to carry its 2.5 million customers through the worst of any potential droughts — multiple years in a row with minimal rainfall. “Three years, no problem. I’d say even five years,” Herndon said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Metropolitan Water District of Southern California — which serves 19 million people mostly with imported water — also has an abundance, “with a record 3.8 million acre-feet of water in storage,” according to Interim General Manager Deven Upadhyay, who issued a statement last week. That’s enough water to supply 40 million people for a year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year was the \u003ca href=\"https://ca.water.usgs.gov/california-drought/california-drought-runoff.html\">eighth wettest year\u003c/a> statewide in a century, and 2024 was about average. Now, the state’s largest reservoirs are \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/california-drought-monitor/\">well above their average levels \u003c/a>for this time of year. Lake Oroville, the State Water Project’s largest, contained 128% of its average to-date storage as of Jan. 6. Lake Shasta was at 130%. Casitas and Diamond Valley reservoirs, key holding facilities for Southern California’s supply, are both almost full.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moreover, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12020122/northern-california-snowpack-much-stronger-start-than-last-year\">snowpack conditions\u003c/a> in the Sierra Nevada are promising.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As of Monday, the Sierra Nevada contained a \u003ca href=\"https://cdec.water.ca.gov/reportapp/javareports?name=swccond.pdf\">snow water equivalent (PDF)\u003c/a> of 103% of average. The northern end of the mountain range is at 150% — a reassuring status since it’s the source of the bulk of the reservoirs. The southern end, however, now holds just two-thirds of its average for early January.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12020772\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1568px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12020772\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/010225-Snow-Survey-DWR-CM-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1568\" height=\"1045\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/010225-Snow-Survey-DWR-CM-copy.jpg 1568w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/010225-Snow-Survey-DWR-CM-copy-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/010225-Snow-Survey-DWR-CM-copy-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/010225-Snow-Survey-DWR-CM-copy-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/010225-Snow-Survey-DWR-CM-copy-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1568px) 100vw, 1568px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">At right, California Department of Water Resources staff member Andy Reising conducts the first snow survey of the 2025 season at Phillips Station in the Sierra Nevada., on Jan. 2, 2025. \u003ccite>(Nick Shockey/California Department of Water Resources)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Off to a better start this water year than we were last year, but much remains to be seen in terms of how this water year actually ends up,” said David Rizzardo, hydrology section manager of the California Department of Water Resources.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agency announced in early December that its State Water Project — which serves 750,000 acres of farmland and 27 million people — would be delivering 5% of requested water supplies to local agencies. Later in the month, after November’s atmospheric rivers pummeled Northern California, the department boosted the initial allocation to 15%. The allocation will likely jump again before the rainy season peters out — usually in April or May.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What’s in store for the next three months?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In California climatology, only one prediction is downright easy to make: Summers will be dry across most of the state. But California’s winters are extremely variable, and how the next three months — historically the wettest of most years — will unwind is anyone’s guess.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Michael Anderson, a climatologist with the California Department of Water Resources, said a single large storm could change the outlook for Southern California’s water year. But he also observed that most years that have started out so exceptionally dry have stayed dry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of the ten times on record when Southern California’s coastal region had received less than an inch of rain by New Year’s Day, only once did the water year’s precipitation tally come out above normal, he said. Three of those times, precipitation levels reached almost average.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>John Abatzoglou, a climatologist at UC Merced, said an abrupt shift in precipitation patterns into a full-on drought statewide, though not necessarily probable, would not be surprising, either.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That is certainly the California story — bouts of very wet to bouts of very dry, flipping within a single season, flipping year to year, hoping that it evens out in the end,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though it’s essentially a tossup how the rest of the year shapes up, there is a caveat: the onset of \u003ca href=\"https://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/analysis_monitoring/enso_advisory/ensodisc.shtml\">La Niña\u003c/a>. The counterpart to the more prestigious El Niño, La Niña often features dry conditions in Southern California and wetter conditions farther north.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alexander Gershunov, a research meteorologist at UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography, said the precipitation patterns seen so far this year, while somewhat consistent with La Niña, are more the “outcome of natural variability.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“La Niña signals typically don’t kick in until January,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A classic La Niña could draw out current patterns through the remainder of the winter, though Gershunov also leaned toward the possibility that the year would finish up a wet one. Citing 2011, 2017 and 2023, he said, “three of the wettest years this century were La Niña years.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Southern California’s dry conditions primed the region to burn. The largest wildfire, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.fire.ca.gov/incidents/2025/1/7/palisades-fire\">Palisades Fire\u003c/a>, in Los Angeles County’s Pacific Palisades, grew to more than 3,000 acres within hours, forcing evacuation of tens of thousands of residences and destroying homes. The \u003ca href=\"https://www.fire.ca.gov/incidents/2025/1/7/eaton-fire\">Eaton Fire \u003c/a>ignited in Altadena, near the San Gabriel Mountains, on Tuesday night.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Wetter wets and drier dries\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Increasingly pronounced weather extremes have been a growing area of interest among scientists and state officials, who frequently cite “weather whiplash” — “wetter wets” and “drier dries” — as one of the most pressing climate-related challenges facing California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mid-winter wildfires are just one potential outcome of this climate pattern. Increasingly erratic and unpredictable water cycles are another. California’s intricate system of reservoirs, canals and pumping stations was built to accommodate winter rainfall followed by a steady flow of snowmelt in the summer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our reservoir system was predicated on the notion that much of our water would stay frozen in the mountains for months,” said Jeffrey Mount, a senior fellow and water supply expert at the Public Policy Institute of California.[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"news_12020122,news_11986659,science_1935067\"]But the climate that has historically supported this pattern is changing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Hots are getting hotter, dries are getting drier, the wets are getting a lot wetter,” said Gov. Gavin Newsom in a recent press briefing. “You have simultaneous droughts and simultaneous rain bombs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One trend frequently described is that of warmer and shorter winters, compressed from both ends. This causes more precipitation to fall in a shorter period of time, more of it to fall as rain, and more of the snow that does fall to melt earlier in the season.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Climate models suggest that the state’s snowpack — a resource that on average has provided \u003ca href=\"https://oehha.ca.gov/climate-change/epic-2022/impacts-physical-systems/snow-water-content\">15 million acre-feet of water annually\u003c/a>, or nearly four times the capacity of the state’s largest reservoir — could mostly disappear by the end of the century, when winters may be too warm to support long-lasting snow on all but the highest peaks and ridges in the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The outlooks for California are a warmer future, where we see that snow line … moving up the hill, towards the end of the century, really leaving that seasonal snowpack to the higher elevations,” Anderson, at the Department of Water Resources, said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mount said the decline of snowpack is happening slowly on average, but with extreme snow drought periods increasingly falling into the bar charts of California history. Notable gaps are seen from 2012 to 2015 and 2020 to 2023 — low-snow periods that could reflect future norms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re facing a future without snowpack, and we’re not ready for that,” Mount said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This shifting hydrology has prompted calls from many water supply advocates for more reservoirs and enlargement of existing ones to capture more water at once. The long-delayed proposed \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/environment/2023/02/california-sites-reservoir/\">Sites Reservoir\u003c/a> — one of Newsom’s frequent rallying points — is well into planning stages, and other reservoirs are being enlarged.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mount said relying on such concrete infrastructure enhancements will eventually prove much too costly. The solution, he says, lies underground.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our best hope is to aggressively start using groundwater for our main storage for the future,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Underground solutions\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>That’s not so easy in agricultural areas. Farms use such great volumes of water that it’s impossible to recharge many groundwater basins faster than growers pump it out, especially in the \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/environment/water/2023/02/california-depleted-groundwater-storms/\">San Joaquin Valley\u003c/a>. Water agencies and state officials are seeking ways to channel floodwaters into gravelly basins where water can rapidly sink in, but logistical and regulatory barriers continue to stifle progress.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because urban areas use relatively little water compared to farmland, local stormwater capture has made more of a splash. The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power captured more than \u003ca href=\"https://www.ladwpnews.com/record-snowpack-dramatically-improves-water-supply-outlook-for-los-angeles/\">108,000 acre-feet\u003c/a> of local stormwater in 2023 — about 20% of its annual demands — and diverted it into groundwater basins. Last year, the agency captured \u003ca href=\"https://www.ladwpnews.com/the-city-of-los-angeles-captures-5-billion-more-gallons-of-stormwater-in-february-2024-than-february-2023/\">41,000 acre-feet\u003c/a> of stormwater in February alone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Delon Kwan, the department’s assistant director of water resources, said city plans are afoot to increase stormwater capture to 150,000 acre-feet per year by 2035, in part by using urban parks as infiltration grounds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Water recycling systems are another way to help drought-proof California communities. In his 2022 \u003ca href=\"https://resources.ca.gov/-/media/CNRA-Website/Files/Initiatives/Water-Resilience/CA-Water-Supply-Strategy.pdf\">water supply strategy (PDF)\u003c/a>, Newsom set a target of 800,000 acre-feet of recycled water by 2030 and 1.8 million acre-feet by 2040. Some cities already reuse wastewater for irrigation or treat it after storing it in aquifers. Now, direct potable reuse — sometimes erroneously called toilet-to-tap — has been \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/environment/2023/12/california-rules-turn-sewage-into-drinking-water/#:~:text=Gavin%20Newsom%20called%20for%20increasing,streams%20and%20the%20deep%20ocean.\">approved \u003c/a>in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mount said Southern California has made great steps toward improving local water supplies, but climate change could limit the region’s potential for self-sufficiency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As you see increasing aridity in Southern California, with a climate more and more like the Southwest, you’re going to see increasing reliance on water from other areas,” he said. “If you haven’t got water to recycle, it becomes a real problem. If you haven’t got stormwater to capture, it’s a problem.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>A remarkably wet kickoff to Northern California’s rainy season has coincided with a desperately dry fall in Southern California — a huge disparity, perhaps \u003ca href=\"https://weatherwest.com/archives/43171\">unprecedented\u003c/a>, between the haves and have-nots of rainfall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Los Angeles usually gets several inches of rain by now, halfway into the rainy season, but it’s only recorded a fifth of an inch downtown since July, its second driest period in almost \u003ca href=\"https://www.laalmanac.com/weather/we131b.php\">150 years of record-keeping\u003c/a>. The rest of Southern California is just as bone-dry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the same time, much of the northern third of the state has weathered nearly two months of storms, flooding and even tornadoes. Santa Rosa, north of San Francisco, has received more rain than nearly any other city in California — nearly two times its average rainfall to date. At the city’s airport, almost 7 inches fell on Nov. 20 alone, an all-time daily record.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Northern California is always wetter than the semi-arid southern half. But the scale of the north-south gap that has persisted for several months has stunned experts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There have been few if any years since 1895 … that have been so much above-normal in the northern part of the state while simultaneously so dry in the south,” Daniel Swain, a UCLA climate scientist, wrote in his blog \u003ca href=\"https://weatherwest.com/\">Weather West\u003c/a>. He added, in an email exchange with CalMatters, that “it is likely that the current north-south disparity is record-breaking in magnitude by at least some metrics.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This season’s stark imbalance isn’t bad in terms of water supply. That’s because Northern California’s rain and snow feed major reservoirs, which provide much of the water used by Californians. If this occurred in reverse — a wet south and a dry north — most of the water would remain uncaptured, providing little benefit for supplies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://cdec.water.ca.gov/reportapp/javareports?name=swccond.pdf\">Snowfall to date (PDF)\u003c/a> has followed a similar pattern, with relatively heavy snowpack accumulating in the northern Sierra Nevada and substantially below-average levels in the southern Sierra.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/W7BDQ/3/\" width=\"800\" height=\"750\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All of Southern California, between Kern County and the borders with Arizona and Mexico, is experiencing \u003ca href=\"https://www.drought.gov/states/california\">moderate to extreme drought\u003c/a> so far this season. The dryness, along with fierce Santa Ana winds, ignited two major fast-moving wildfires in Los Angeles County on Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But while the latest forecasts predict dry weather for at least the next 12 days, water suppliers aren’t panicking. They say thanks to ample precipitation two years in a row, their reservoirs and groundwater basins are brimming with water to supply Southern Californians.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In terms of water reliability and water supply at this moment in Southern California, things are looking pretty solid,” said Mike McNutt of the Las Virgenes Municipal Water District, which serves 75,000 people in northwest Los Angeles County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition, demand in the district has declined since the 2020 drought year by 23%, McNutt said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Statewide, average per capita water use has declined sharply \u003ca href=\"https://www.ppic.org/publication/water-use-in-california/\">since the 1990s\u003c/a> in spite of a growing population. Last July, state officials approved controversial and costly \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/environment/water/2024/07/california-water-conservation-rules-adopted/\">mandatory conservation rules\u003c/a> that force 405 cities and other urban suppliers serving about 95% of Californians to meet individualized water budgets that decline over time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Orange County Water District Chief Hydrogeologist Roy Herndon said his agency, which supplies groundwater to the north half of the county, has enough supply to carry its 2.5 million customers through the worst of any potential droughts — multiple years in a row with minimal rainfall. “Three years, no problem. I’d say even five years,” Herndon said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Metropolitan Water District of Southern California — which serves 19 million people mostly with imported water — also has an abundance, “with a record 3.8 million acre-feet of water in storage,” according to Interim General Manager Deven Upadhyay, who issued a statement last week. That’s enough water to supply 40 million people for a year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year was the \u003ca href=\"https://ca.water.usgs.gov/california-drought/california-drought-runoff.html\">eighth wettest year\u003c/a> statewide in a century, and 2024 was about average. Now, the state’s largest reservoirs are \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/california-drought-monitor/\">well above their average levels \u003c/a>for this time of year. Lake Oroville, the State Water Project’s largest, contained 128% of its average to-date storage as of Jan. 6. Lake Shasta was at 130%. Casitas and Diamond Valley reservoirs, key holding facilities for Southern California’s supply, are both almost full.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moreover, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12020122/northern-california-snowpack-much-stronger-start-than-last-year\">snowpack conditions\u003c/a> in the Sierra Nevada are promising.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As of Monday, the Sierra Nevada contained a \u003ca href=\"https://cdec.water.ca.gov/reportapp/javareports?name=swccond.pdf\">snow water equivalent (PDF)\u003c/a> of 103% of average. The northern end of the mountain range is at 150% — a reassuring status since it’s the source of the bulk of the reservoirs. The southern end, however, now holds just two-thirds of its average for early January.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12020772\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1568px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12020772\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/010225-Snow-Survey-DWR-CM-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1568\" height=\"1045\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/010225-Snow-Survey-DWR-CM-copy.jpg 1568w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/010225-Snow-Survey-DWR-CM-copy-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/010225-Snow-Survey-DWR-CM-copy-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/010225-Snow-Survey-DWR-CM-copy-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/010225-Snow-Survey-DWR-CM-copy-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1568px) 100vw, 1568px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">At right, California Department of Water Resources staff member Andy Reising conducts the first snow survey of the 2025 season at Phillips Station in the Sierra Nevada., on Jan. 2, 2025. \u003ccite>(Nick Shockey/California Department of Water Resources)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Off to a better start this water year than we were last year, but much remains to be seen in terms of how this water year actually ends up,” said David Rizzardo, hydrology section manager of the California Department of Water Resources.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agency announced in early December that its State Water Project — which serves 750,000 acres of farmland and 27 million people — would be delivering 5% of requested water supplies to local agencies. Later in the month, after November’s atmospheric rivers pummeled Northern California, the department boosted the initial allocation to 15%. The allocation will likely jump again before the rainy season peters out — usually in April or May.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What’s in store for the next three months?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In California climatology, only one prediction is downright easy to make: Summers will be dry across most of the state. But California’s winters are extremely variable, and how the next three months — historically the wettest of most years — will unwind is anyone’s guess.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Michael Anderson, a climatologist with the California Department of Water Resources, said a single large storm could change the outlook for Southern California’s water year. But he also observed that most years that have started out so exceptionally dry have stayed dry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of the ten times on record when Southern California’s coastal region had received less than an inch of rain by New Year’s Day, only once did the water year’s precipitation tally come out above normal, he said. Three of those times, precipitation levels reached almost average.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>John Abatzoglou, a climatologist at UC Merced, said an abrupt shift in precipitation patterns into a full-on drought statewide, though not necessarily probable, would not be surprising, either.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That is certainly the California story — bouts of very wet to bouts of very dry, flipping within a single season, flipping year to year, hoping that it evens out in the end,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though it’s essentially a tossup how the rest of the year shapes up, there is a caveat: the onset of \u003ca href=\"https://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/analysis_monitoring/enso_advisory/ensodisc.shtml\">La Niña\u003c/a>. The counterpart to the more prestigious El Niño, La Niña often features dry conditions in Southern California and wetter conditions farther north.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alexander Gershunov, a research meteorologist at UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography, said the precipitation patterns seen so far this year, while somewhat consistent with La Niña, are more the “outcome of natural variability.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“La Niña signals typically don’t kick in until January,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A classic La Niña could draw out current patterns through the remainder of the winter, though Gershunov also leaned toward the possibility that the year would finish up a wet one. Citing 2011, 2017 and 2023, he said, “three of the wettest years this century were La Niña years.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Southern California’s dry conditions primed the region to burn. The largest wildfire, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.fire.ca.gov/incidents/2025/1/7/palisades-fire\">Palisades Fire\u003c/a>, in Los Angeles County’s Pacific Palisades, grew to more than 3,000 acres within hours, forcing evacuation of tens of thousands of residences and destroying homes. The \u003ca href=\"https://www.fire.ca.gov/incidents/2025/1/7/eaton-fire\">Eaton Fire \u003c/a>ignited in Altadena, near the San Gabriel Mountains, on Tuesday night.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Wetter wets and drier dries\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Increasingly pronounced weather extremes have been a growing area of interest among scientists and state officials, who frequently cite “weather whiplash” — “wetter wets” and “drier dries” — as one of the most pressing climate-related challenges facing California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mid-winter wildfires are just one potential outcome of this climate pattern. Increasingly erratic and unpredictable water cycles are another. California’s intricate system of reservoirs, canals and pumping stations was built to accommodate winter rainfall followed by a steady flow of snowmelt in the summer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our reservoir system was predicated on the notion that much of our water would stay frozen in the mountains for months,” said Jeffrey Mount, a senior fellow and water supply expert at the Public Policy Institute of California.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>But the climate that has historically supported this pattern is changing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Hots are getting hotter, dries are getting drier, the wets are getting a lot wetter,” said Gov. Gavin Newsom in a recent press briefing. “You have simultaneous droughts and simultaneous rain bombs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One trend frequently described is that of warmer and shorter winters, compressed from both ends. This causes more precipitation to fall in a shorter period of time, more of it to fall as rain, and more of the snow that does fall to melt earlier in the season.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Climate models suggest that the state’s snowpack — a resource that on average has provided \u003ca href=\"https://oehha.ca.gov/climate-change/epic-2022/impacts-physical-systems/snow-water-content\">15 million acre-feet of water annually\u003c/a>, or nearly four times the capacity of the state’s largest reservoir — could mostly disappear by the end of the century, when winters may be too warm to support long-lasting snow on all but the highest peaks and ridges in the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The outlooks for California are a warmer future, where we see that snow line … moving up the hill, towards the end of the century, really leaving that seasonal snowpack to the higher elevations,” Anderson, at the Department of Water Resources, said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mount said the decline of snowpack is happening slowly on average, but with extreme snow drought periods increasingly falling into the bar charts of California history. Notable gaps are seen from 2012 to 2015 and 2020 to 2023 — low-snow periods that could reflect future norms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re facing a future without snowpack, and we’re not ready for that,” Mount said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This shifting hydrology has prompted calls from many water supply advocates for more reservoirs and enlargement of existing ones to capture more water at once. The long-delayed proposed \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/environment/2023/02/california-sites-reservoir/\">Sites Reservoir\u003c/a> — one of Newsom’s frequent rallying points — is well into planning stages, and other reservoirs are being enlarged.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mount said relying on such concrete infrastructure enhancements will eventually prove much too costly. The solution, he says, lies underground.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our best hope is to aggressively start using groundwater for our main storage for the future,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Underground solutions\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>That’s not so easy in agricultural areas. Farms use such great volumes of water that it’s impossible to recharge many groundwater basins faster than growers pump it out, especially in the \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/environment/water/2023/02/california-depleted-groundwater-storms/\">San Joaquin Valley\u003c/a>. Water agencies and state officials are seeking ways to channel floodwaters into gravelly basins where water can rapidly sink in, but logistical and regulatory barriers continue to stifle progress.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because urban areas use relatively little water compared to farmland, local stormwater capture has made more of a splash. The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power captured more than \u003ca href=\"https://www.ladwpnews.com/record-snowpack-dramatically-improves-water-supply-outlook-for-los-angeles/\">108,000 acre-feet\u003c/a> of local stormwater in 2023 — about 20% of its annual demands — and diverted it into groundwater basins. Last year, the agency captured \u003ca href=\"https://www.ladwpnews.com/the-city-of-los-angeles-captures-5-billion-more-gallons-of-stormwater-in-february-2024-than-february-2023/\">41,000 acre-feet\u003c/a> of stormwater in February alone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Delon Kwan, the department’s assistant director of water resources, said city plans are afoot to increase stormwater capture to 150,000 acre-feet per year by 2035, in part by using urban parks as infiltration grounds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Water recycling systems are another way to help drought-proof California communities. In his 2022 \u003ca href=\"https://resources.ca.gov/-/media/CNRA-Website/Files/Initiatives/Water-Resilience/CA-Water-Supply-Strategy.pdf\">water supply strategy (PDF)\u003c/a>, Newsom set a target of 800,000 acre-feet of recycled water by 2030 and 1.8 million acre-feet by 2040. Some cities already reuse wastewater for irrigation or treat it after storing it in aquifers. 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"content": "\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/santa-cruz\">Santa Cruz\u003c/a> wharf is likely to remain closed for weeks, potentially months, after part of its end tumbled into the ocean during heavy surf last week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As strong waves nearing 20 feet tall \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12019684/santa-cruz-wharf-partially-collapses-as-pacific-storm-pounds-californias-coast\">pounded the coast on Dec. 23\u003c/a>, a 150-foot section on the end of the wharf collapsed, bringing down a public restroom, heavy construction equipment and three workers who were assessing its structural stability. The section was already \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12019798/repair-work-left-santa-cruz-wharf-vulnerable-to-collapse-a-rebuild-is-uncertain\">closed for repairs\u003c/a> after taking storm damage last year. None of the workers was seriously injured.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Santa Cruz city officials are still surveying the damage and assessing structural integrity to determine when the wharf can reopen, according to the city manager’s office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Crews are also still working to clear debris from along the coast — heavy machinery, including a crane and a skid steer loader, fell to the sea floor, and huge wooden pilings, weighing hundreds of pounds apiece, were sent adrift. The public restroom that was on the end of the pier floated about a half mile south and settled at the mouth of the San Lorenzo River. Debris has washed up on beaches 10 miles south of the wharf.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, state officials are assisting with the recovery and cleanup after the city and county of Santa Cruz declared a local emergency last week, allowing for aid from the California Governor’s Office of Emergency Services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Conversations and decisions around rebuilding are yet to be determined at this time,” a spokesperson for the city manager’s office said in a statement this week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Santa Cruz wharf is over a century old, and its wooden pilings are often buffeted by powerful waves. With climate change expected to fuel more frequent, stronger swells in the future, officials must weigh whether it’s worthwhile to rebuild the section that fell into the ocean — and commit to the years of maintenance that are likely to follow, said Kate Talerico, a \u003cem>Mercury News\u003c/em> reporter who covered the \u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2024/12/28/protections-for-nesting-gulls-among-other-uniquely-californian-headaches-delayed-repairs-to-santa-cruz-wharf/\">fallout of the collapse\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not a matter of if the wharf is going to get damaged again at some point; it’s a question of when — and that’s the nature of the beast,” Talerico told KQED this week. “When you stick anything into the ocean, it’s going to be impacted sooner or later. The Pacific Ocean is going to win out eventually.”[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"news_12019684,news_12019798\"]At a press conference last week, Santa Cruz Mayor Fred Keeley said it may not make sense to rebuild the part of the wharf that collapsed. Unless the entire structure is rethought with climate change top of mind, Keeley said, “I don’t believe this wharf can be there for another 100 years.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What we experienced in the last couple of days — this is what we need to plan for. This was not what was planned for when the wharf was built,” Keeley said. “I personally wonder how many times the federal government or any other entity is going to pay to repair and replace this very, very old technology.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the meantime, there is still no timeline for reopening the part of the wharf that is still left standing — leaving several businesses in limbo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s Katherine Monahan and Nik Altenberg contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>When Mary Ellen Carroll’s phone blared an emergency weather alert just before 6 a.m. Saturday, she paid it little mind. As San Francisco’s top emergency management official, she had known a day earlier that a severe thunderstorm would possibly bring flash flooding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But as she poured her first cup of coffee and checked in with her staff, she realized San Francisco was dealing with \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12018356/the-tornado-warning-is-over-heres-why-it-was-issued\">something entirely new\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The fact that it was a tornado [warning] came out of nowhere,” said Carroll, executive director of San Francisco’s Department of Emergency Management. “It took us a second because we didn’t have messaging for tornadoes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco’s first-ever tornado warning lasted less than half an hour before the National Weather Service canceled it. Although straight-line winds of up to 80 mph were recorded around Golden Gate Park and the Mission District, there was no evidence of a tornado — leaving some residents questioning the messaging, especially after a tsunami warning had spurred a scrambled response less than two weeks earlier.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the small Santa Cruz County mountain town of Scotts Valley, on the other hand, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12018406/tornado-hits-santa-cruz-county\">a twister touched down\u003c/a> early Saturday afternoon, causing several hundred thousand dollars in damage by flipping several cars and wrenching traffic signals from concrete — yet there was no tornado warning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12018666\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12018666\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/SFTornadoPath.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/SFTornadoPath.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/SFTornadoPath-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/SFTornadoPath-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/SFTornadoPath-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/SFTornadoPath-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/SFTornadoPath-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The path of the storm that prompted the National Weather Service’s tornado warning for San Francisco on Dec. 14, 2024. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of John Monteverdi)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“People were just out Christmas shopping and getting ready for the holidays,” said Mali LaGoe, city manager for Scotts Valley. “It was originally reported as a six-car pileup because no one could believe it was actually a tornado.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With two tornadic moments in eight hours, weather experts questioned why the National Weather Service issued a tornado warning for San Francisco but not Scotts Valley. The weather service defended its messaging, stating national guidelines limit when it can trigger phone alerts: A low-level severe thunderstorm like the one forecast for Scotts Valley doesn’t qualify, but a tornado — when the signs are clearly in view — does.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>John Monteverdi, emeritus professor of meteorology at San Francisco State University, thinks the San Francisco warning was justified. Still, for Scotts Valley, he isn’t sure why the weather service “didn’t issue a tornado warning because, to me, this was a stronger rotation than they saw for San Francisco. Tornadoes can occur without warning in severe thunderstorms.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although a tornado warning is very rare for the region, Monteverdi said tornadoes themselves are “infrequent in California, but not rare” because they are part of the state’s climatology and weather patterns. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration \u003ca href=\"https://www.spc.noaa.gov/climo/online/sp3/plot.php?lat=37.755&lon=121.466&zoom=280&mode=0&bdate=19510411/1200&edate=20231215/1200&torflag=1&windflag=-1&hailflag=-1&t01=0&t02=5&t03=0&t04=9999&t05=0&t06=9999&t07=0&t08=9999&t09=0&t10=9999&h01=0&h02=9999&w01=0&w02=9999&showt=0&legend=1&showh=0&showw=0\">details more than 100 tornadoes across the state since 1950\u003c/a>, including a smattering of twisters across the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12018668\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12018668\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/ScottsValleyTornadoPath.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1066\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/ScottsValleyTornadoPath.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/ScottsValleyTornadoPath-800x426.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/ScottsValleyTornadoPath-1020x544.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/ScottsValleyTornadoPath-160x85.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/ScottsValleyTornadoPath-1536x819.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/ScottsValleyTornadoPath-1920x1023.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The path of the storm and tornado that took place in Scotts Valley on Dec. 14, 2024. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of John Monteverdi)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Tornadoes are rare in mountainous areas — like Scotts Valley — but less so along the coast and Central Valley, Monteverdi said. But occasionally, when a storm is large enough and warm and cold air masses collide, a spiral of air can move upward and “be a precursor to a Wizard of Oz type of tornado, which happened down in Scotts Valley.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And tornadoes often stem from severe thunderstorms. While there’s no scientific consensus that human-caused climate change is increasing the frequency of tornadoes, there is evidence that the intensity of thunderstorms is likely accelerating as the climate warms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It stands to reason that when the conditions are otherwise favorable, perhaps a greater fraction of thunderstorms could occur in environments favorable for tornadoes,” UCLA climate scientist Daniel Swain said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The National Weather Service plans to run simulations of last weekend’s storm to assess whether warnings should come sooner next time in both cities. Brian Garcia, warning coordination meteorologist for the agency’s Bay Area office, acknowledged that thunderstorms are becoming more intense and noted that, as a result, the frequency of tornadoes might also increase.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12018670\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12018670\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/CaliforniaTornados-800x702.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"702\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/CaliforniaTornados-800x702.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/CaliforniaTornados-160x140.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/CaliforniaTornados.jpg 950w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">More than 100 tornadoes have made landfall in California since 1950. Each red signature marks a tornado landfall. \u003ccite>(SPC National Severe Weather Database Browser)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We can’t wait for perfect data 10 to 40 years down the road,” he said. “We’ve got to start acting now like it is caused by climate change so we can lean forward and hopefully protect more people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, Garcia defended how the agency handled its messaging during the storm. A wireless emergency alert went out for San Francisco but not the Santa Cruz area because the weather service has a national threshold for alerting on severe thunderstorms based on forecast potential destruction, which Garcia said is defined by 80 mph winds and or baseball-sized hail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agency issued a severe thunderstorm warning for the Santa Cruz area, which means that media outlets and localities have a choice in how they message the public, but cellphones are not automatically alerted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Garcia argued that while the word “tornado” sounds scarier, a severe thunderstorm carries just as much destructive power.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Either way you shake it, both a severe thunderstorm and tornado warning tell you to seek shelter in an interior room of your house or the lowest floor of your home,” he said. “To try to have a one-size-fits-all all for everybody is obviously a holy grail. But it’s also not going to happen. We’re not going to be able to speak to everybody in the way that they can take an appropriate response to it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12018475 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241216_SFStormCleanup_GC-17-1020x679.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>LaGoe in Scotts Valley and Carroll in San Francisco said they felt the weather service operated within reason. However, they said the more significant effect of the storm is that residents now know tornadoes are possible where they live.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This event was a wake-up call as far as what is possible and how we prepare for the future,” LaGoe said. “This isn’t tornado alley, and I think it’s highly unlikely to happen again. But it’s just something we all need to recognize could happen.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Carroll said there was “very little wiggle room” for any other actions her department could have taken to protect San Franciscans from the storm, which ultimately \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12018475/no-tornado-sf-crews-still-working-clear-hundreds-downed-trees\">downed more than 400 trees\u003c/a> but did not lead to any reported injuries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city’s Department of Emergency Management has another option: using sirens to alert the public of a tornado. However, Carroll said the outdoor public warning system, built in the 1950s to warn residents of Cold War threats, was turned off in 2019 due to security vulnerabilities. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>When Mary Ellen Carroll’s phone blared an emergency weather alert just before 6 a.m. Saturday, she paid it little mind. As San Francisco’s top emergency management official, she had known a day earlier that a severe thunderstorm would possibly bring flash flooding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But as she poured her first cup of coffee and checked in with her staff, she realized San Francisco was dealing with \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12018356/the-tornado-warning-is-over-heres-why-it-was-issued\">something entirely new\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The fact that it was a tornado [warning] came out of nowhere,” said Carroll, executive director of San Francisco’s Department of Emergency Management. “It took us a second because we didn’t have messaging for tornadoes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco’s first-ever tornado warning lasted less than half an hour before the National Weather Service canceled it. Although straight-line winds of up to 80 mph were recorded around Golden Gate Park and the Mission District, there was no evidence of a tornado — leaving some residents questioning the messaging, especially after a tsunami warning had spurred a scrambled response less than two weeks earlier.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the small Santa Cruz County mountain town of Scotts Valley, on the other hand, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12018406/tornado-hits-santa-cruz-county\">a twister touched down\u003c/a> early Saturday afternoon, causing several hundred thousand dollars in damage by flipping several cars and wrenching traffic signals from concrete — yet there was no tornado warning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12018666\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12018666\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/SFTornadoPath.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/SFTornadoPath.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/SFTornadoPath-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/SFTornadoPath-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/SFTornadoPath-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/SFTornadoPath-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/SFTornadoPath-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The path of the storm that prompted the National Weather Service’s tornado warning for San Francisco on Dec. 14, 2024. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of John Monteverdi)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“People were just out Christmas shopping and getting ready for the holidays,” said Mali LaGoe, city manager for Scotts Valley. “It was originally reported as a six-car pileup because no one could believe it was actually a tornado.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With two tornadic moments in eight hours, weather experts questioned why the National Weather Service issued a tornado warning for San Francisco but not Scotts Valley. The weather service defended its messaging, stating national guidelines limit when it can trigger phone alerts: A low-level severe thunderstorm like the one forecast for Scotts Valley doesn’t qualify, but a tornado — when the signs are clearly in view — does.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>John Monteverdi, emeritus professor of meteorology at San Francisco State University, thinks the San Francisco warning was justified. Still, for Scotts Valley, he isn’t sure why the weather service “didn’t issue a tornado warning because, to me, this was a stronger rotation than they saw for San Francisco. Tornadoes can occur without warning in severe thunderstorms.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although a tornado warning is very rare for the region, Monteverdi said tornadoes themselves are “infrequent in California, but not rare” because they are part of the state’s climatology and weather patterns. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration \u003ca href=\"https://www.spc.noaa.gov/climo/online/sp3/plot.php?lat=37.755&lon=121.466&zoom=280&mode=0&bdate=19510411/1200&edate=20231215/1200&torflag=1&windflag=-1&hailflag=-1&t01=0&t02=5&t03=0&t04=9999&t05=0&t06=9999&t07=0&t08=9999&t09=0&t10=9999&h01=0&h02=9999&w01=0&w02=9999&showt=0&legend=1&showh=0&showw=0\">details more than 100 tornadoes across the state since 1950\u003c/a>, including a smattering of twisters across the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12018668\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12018668\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/ScottsValleyTornadoPath.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1066\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/ScottsValleyTornadoPath.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/ScottsValleyTornadoPath-800x426.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/ScottsValleyTornadoPath-1020x544.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/ScottsValleyTornadoPath-160x85.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/ScottsValleyTornadoPath-1536x819.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/ScottsValleyTornadoPath-1920x1023.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The path of the storm and tornado that took place in Scotts Valley on Dec. 14, 2024. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of John Monteverdi)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Tornadoes are rare in mountainous areas — like Scotts Valley — but less so along the coast and Central Valley, Monteverdi said. But occasionally, when a storm is large enough and warm and cold air masses collide, a spiral of air can move upward and “be a precursor to a Wizard of Oz type of tornado, which happened down in Scotts Valley.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And tornadoes often stem from severe thunderstorms. While there’s no scientific consensus that human-caused climate change is increasing the frequency of tornadoes, there is evidence that the intensity of thunderstorms is likely accelerating as the climate warms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It stands to reason that when the conditions are otherwise favorable, perhaps a greater fraction of thunderstorms could occur in environments favorable for tornadoes,” UCLA climate scientist Daniel Swain said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The National Weather Service plans to run simulations of last weekend’s storm to assess whether warnings should come sooner next time in both cities. Brian Garcia, warning coordination meteorologist for the agency’s Bay Area office, acknowledged that thunderstorms are becoming more intense and noted that, as a result, the frequency of tornadoes might also increase.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12018670\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12018670\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/CaliforniaTornados-800x702.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"702\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/CaliforniaTornados-800x702.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/CaliforniaTornados-160x140.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/CaliforniaTornados.jpg 950w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">More than 100 tornadoes have made landfall in California since 1950. Each red signature marks a tornado landfall. \u003ccite>(SPC National Severe Weather Database Browser)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We can’t wait for perfect data 10 to 40 years down the road,” he said. “We’ve got to start acting now like it is caused by climate change so we can lean forward and hopefully protect more people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, Garcia defended how the agency handled its messaging during the storm. 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"content": "\u003cp>San Franciscans woken up early Saturday by \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12018356/the-tornado-warning-is-over-heres-why-it-was-issued\">a tornado warning\u003c/a> might have hoped it was just a bad dream, but even though a twister never touched down in the city, destructive winds and rain weren’t a passing nightmare.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Crews are still clearing downed trees and repairing damage after the storm, which produced gusts of up to 80 mph through Golden Gate Park and the Richmond District, according to the National Weather Service. The Department of Public Works is fielding more than 350 reports of fallen and damaged trees on city streets, and the Recreation and Parks Department estimates that up to 100 more were downed throughout its parks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Golden Gate Park and the Mission District were hit particularly hard, according to department spokespeople.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“About 50 to 100 trees fell across the whole park system, and about half of those at least were in the west end of Golden Gate Park,” said Tamara Aparton, the parks department’s communications director. “It was a really violent storm in the west end, and it knocked down a lot of really big trees.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There was some damage to the outer paddock of the park’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11495697/whats-with-the-bison-in-golden-gate-park\">beloved bison pasture\u003c/a>, but Aparton said the inner paddock remained intact, and all of the bison were safe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the Richmond District, water seeped into the gym at George Washington High School after a rooftop skylight was damaged, according to San Francisco school district spokesperson Laura Dudnick. On Monday, she said the facilities team was working to repair and clean the space.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12018590\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12018590\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241216_SFStormCleanup_GC-9.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241216_SFStormCleanup_GC-9.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241216_SFStormCleanup_GC-9-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241216_SFStormCleanup_GC-9-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241216_SFStormCleanup_GC-9-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241216_SFStormCleanup_GC-9-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241216_SFStormCleanup_GC-9-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A San Francisco Parks and Recreation worker wraps red caution tape around a tree stump by the bison paddock in Golden Gate Park in San Francisco on Dec. 16, 2024. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On the other side of the city, crews have been clearing hard-hit streets and sidewalks in the Mission District. Fallen street trees broke windows, wrecked cars and landed on some buildings, and the Department of Public Works is also handling damaged fencing and pavement, spokesperson Rachel Gordon said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Utility infrastructure was also damaged in the storm, which had 100,000 customers without power at its peak, according to PG&E. The company did not yet have a tally of the damage on Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No injuries have been reported to either the public works or parks department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12018025 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241205_Tsunami-Warning_DMB_0666-1020x679.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to many downed trees in the Mission, an entire cluster near San Jose Avenue between Noe Valley and Bernal Heights came down at once, causing a road closure on Saturday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The big culprit really is wind and then saturated ground,” she said. “If the ground is really wet, there’s not a lot for the roots to grip onto, so they’re more vulnerable to damage, and [that’s] when large limbs come down.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the total number of downed trees in this storm wasn’t unusually high, city officials said their cleanup would take at least a few more days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have no magic wand to make the fallen trees and the branches disappear,” Gordon told KQED. “There are real people who are going out to pick them up and move them away.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said crews had been out before dawn and late into the night clearing trees. When a full tree falls, it needs to be chopped into smaller pieces before it can be moved, while trees that are still partially standing have to be chipped away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have gotten the major incidents cleared, but we still have asked for a little bit of patience,” Gordon said. “It might take several more days at least to get all of the green waste picked up and cleared away.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/shossaini\">\u003cem>Sara Hossaini\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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Schools and businesses, including some outside the danger zone, emptied.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But just as all these steps were completed, the National Tsunami Warning Center — which had forecast a tsunami of at least 3 feet — canceled the alert when it became apparent there was no threat anywhere along the coast.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, Berkeley officials are defending the aggressiveness of their response to the Dec. 5 alert while saying they’d like to see \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12017058/how-confusion-over-californias-tsunami-warning-shows-limits-us-forecasting\">improvements in how tsunami warnings are handled\u003c/a> in the future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12016878\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12016878 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241205_Tsunami-Warning_DMB_0542.jpg\" alt=\"People look out over a railing into an open space.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1332\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241205_Tsunami-Warning_DMB_0542.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241205_Tsunami-Warning_DMB_0542-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241205_Tsunami-Warning_DMB_0542-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241205_Tsunami-Warning_DMB_0542-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241205_Tsunami-Warning_DMB_0542-1536x1023.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241205_Tsunami-Warning_DMB_0542-1920x1279.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">People watch for signs of a tsunami from an overlook point at Brickyard Cove in Berkeley on Thursday, Dec. 5, 2024. \u003ccite>(David M. 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That warning again left many wondering how they were supposed to respond to such an unfamiliar alert for the area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Regardless of the final determination of what kind of storm it was, residents were understandably anxious to receive an alert about something we don’t associate with our region,” the San Francisco Department of Emergency Management \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/SF_emergency/status/1868087841802338321/photo/1\">said in a statement\u003c/a>. “Heightening the concern is the fact that this is the second WEA in the past two weeks for hazards with low probability like tornados and tsunamis.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12018468 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241122-StormHitsBayArea-04-BL-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lana said several factors came together to prompt Berkeley’s tsunami evacuation order, including that the National Tsunami Warning Center had issued its highest level of alert and that the state’s inundation map showed a serious threat to West Berkeley. The location of the earthquake, about 225 miles northwest of the Golden Gate, was also crucial.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This earthquake was so close, relatively speaking, to the Bay Area that the processes for measuring and confirming this tsunami were just not fast enough for us to be able to wait on taking action,” Lana said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Places such as San Francisco, San Mateo County, Alameda County and the city of Fremont warned residents to head for higher ground after the tsunami warning but did not roll out widespread evacuation orders like Berkeley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lana said it’s important for emergency officials to be able to act even “with not all the information they need.” That means trusting guidance from federal and state sources about potential threats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’ve been working very hard on providing guidance that we can implement quickly when the time comes. 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