Page 3 - Tom Corringham News Today

The water levels of Lake Mead are higher than predicted this week, but are expected to fall again by the end of April, potentially to record-breaking lows.

Owens Lake, 220 miles north of Los Angeles, has been drying out since 1913, when its source, the Owens River, was rerouted into the Los Angeles Aqueduct.

After months of rain, the state is being battered by a bomb cyclone. The extreme events could happen more due to climate change, a researcher tells Newsweek.

As climate change makes storms warmer and wetter, the state’s flood control system is struggling to keep up.

California's storms — including "atmospheric rivers" that bring lots of rain and flooding — are getting warmer and wetter because of climate change.

As storms get warmer and wetter, the state's flood control system is struggling to keep up.

"If next weeks atmospheric rivers are warm, that could spell trouble," top expert Tom Corringham teld Newsweek.

Climate scientist Tom Corringham talks to Down To Earth about bomb cyclones, atmospheric rivers and how global warming can effect these natural phenomena

Life in California often requires navigating the edges of natural beauty and natural disaster. On the fifth anniversary of a catastrophe, residents had to flee again.

California isn't just drying out. Paradoxically, it's also getting wetter, as shown by the forceful floods that are puncturing its mega-drought.