Floods, droughts, then fires: Hydroclimate whiplash is speeding up globally New research links intensifying wet and dry swings to the atmosphere's sponge-like ability to drop and absorb water Date ...

Jan. 10, 2025 “We’re in a whiplash event now, wet to dry, in Southern California,” said Daniel Swain, a UCLA climate scientist who led the research. “The evidence shows that hydroclimate ...

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 ...

Myanmar refugees, many aging and needing oxygen, are being turned away from hospitals that closed when the U.S. pulled funding this week. A South African organization that provides HIV testing has ...

The state's naturally variable climate increases its wildfire risk. Hydroclimate whiplash -- the rapid shift between wet and dry conditions -- likely contributed to the severity of the wildfires ...

This quick cycling between very wet and very dry periods — one example of what scientists have come to call “weather whiplash” — creates prime conditions for wildfires: The rain encourages ...

A study published Thursday has put the blame for the wildfires ravaging parts of Los Angeles on an emerging climate phenomenon: hydroclimate whiplash. This latest disaster comes on the heels of ...

So-called “weather whiplash” conditions have increased 31 to 66 percent across the globe since the mid-1900s, the researchers found. “This is really, I would argue, a signature of climate ...

Scientists at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) have uncovered a global pattern of what they're calling 'hydroclimate whiplash' – rapid swings between intensely wet and ...

Californians are all too familiar with flip-flopping weather extremes. New research cements the idea that California’s weather whiplash is increasing as the atmosphere warms due to human-caused ...

With consensus-based lawmaking a seemingly quaint notion of the past, it is the unsung legal eagles scattered across the states that offer the best chance at thwarting policy whiplash.

Hydroclimate whiplash -- the rapid shift between wet and dry conditions -- likely contributed to the severity of the wildfires burning in Southern California, according to experts. In recent years ...