Climate change may boost California’s hurricane flood risk: study

Hurricanes aren’t common in California. But a changing climate may make rainfall from nearby storms much more impactful in the future

Hurricanes are exceptionally rare in California. Records hold only a handful of strikes since the middle of the 1800s, and even those were just glancing blows.

The trend may not hold as the climate changes. A recent study revealed that southern California may endure more frequent heavy rain and landslide events in the future as tropical cyclones push closer to the region…

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