This is a story of two extreme events—one that was expected but failed to occur and the other that actually did occur but was not anticipated. The one that failed was extreme wetness over Southern California (SCAL) during winter 2015/16, which was predicted by seasonal forecasts. The extreme event that did occur was dryness whose considerable magnitude exacerbated one of the worst droughts on record over SCAL.
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2017 | Geophysical Research Letters 44(7): 3184-3192, 2017
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The recent multiyear drought over California was characterized by large precipitation deficits and abnormally high temperatures during both wet and dr...
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