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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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X users, especially sports fans, may be seeing an influx of recent posts accompanied with photos, asking them to "tap, hold and load in 4K." What has been deemed a trend is really just a function ...

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.

And the heating planet causes a phenomenon that San Jose State Climate Scientist Eugene Cordero says is known as "hydroclimate whiplash." "Where you go from dry, to wet, back to dry," Cordero said.

Hydroclimate whiplash – a term for the phenomenon of savage seasonal swings between catastrophic rain and sapping drought – is increasing, fast. Driven by an atmosphere stoked hotter by the ...