The driest place on Earth just had its wettest November on record.
Furnace Creek in Death Valley picked up just over 1 ¾ inches of rain last month, the most on record in the station’s 115-year history and nearly the amount of rain that the desert typically sees in an entire year.
That record was part of a much larger wet November trend across Southern California. Downtown Los Angeles collected 5.5 inches, its fourth-wettest tally on record and its biggest since 1967. Santa Barbara Airport was soaked with 10.6 inches, an all-time high, while Paso Robles logged its fourth-wettest November…