Powerful El Niño positions California for potentially record-breaking wet winter

Potential displacement and property damage from major flooding and coastal erosion across California communities.

Once again, the Pacific Ocean is sending a message that human communities must learn to receive. A powerful El Niño — one climatologists are calling extraordinary — is building offshore, redirecting the jet stream toward California and raising the prospect of a winter that could shatter precipitation records stretching back more than a century. The same force that threatens to flood homes and erode coastlines also carries the potential to replenish drought-depleted reservoirs, reminding us that nature's extremes rarely arrive as simple villains. The season has not yet begun, but the atmospheri

Powerful El Niño positions California for potentially record-breaking wet winter

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