🌧️ Precipitation: The "Weather Pendulum"
- Precipitation Volatility: Researchers at UCLA project a 100% to 200% increase in the frequency of extremely wet winter seasons driven by hyper-intense atmospheric rivers. Concurrently, the frequency of extremely dry years is expected to surge by 50% to 150%.
- Vanishing Snowpack: Higher temperatures mean winter precipitation will fall as rain rather than snow. The Sierra Nevada snowpack is projected to decline by two-thirds, fundamentally straining California’s water storage system.
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