LOS ANGELES – After months of slight temperature shifts in the Pacific Ocean, La Niña has officially returned – the climate pattern that typically drives drought in Southern California.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced Thursday that La Niña conditions had arrived, a possibly foreboding sign for Southern California.
The southern half of the Golden State still has not bounced back from the last year of below-average rainfall, and the reemergence of the ocean phenomenon could mean more drought, with another drier-than-average winter…