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Los Angeles Will Remain at High Risk of Fire Into Next Week
The arrival of La Niña is starving California of rain, and more high Santa Ana winds could be on the way.
NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center announced Thursday that we’ve officially entered La Niña, a pattern of colder-than-normal water temperatures in the Pacific Ocean around the equator. Changes in the atmosphere responding to La Niña can force the jet stream to move northward over the Eastern Pacific Ocean, which shunts storms into Canada’s West Coast instead of the western US, starving states like California of rain. Right on cue, the predominant storm track across the Pacific Ocean will remain up near the Gulf of Alaska through the middle of January, providing few opportunities for rain to make it as far south as Southern California.
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