I'm sure someone in the media is busily trying to convince us that LA has always had the potential for severe snowstorms, it just hasn't happened until now.
Yup, put more energy into the system, in this case more sunlight being absorbed by darker ice-free artic waters, and you get more energetic weather. I.e the circumpolar atmospheric vortex blows stronger, wiggling more as it circulates around the top of the world, randomly bringing colder weather to lower latitudes... like L.A.
You wait until that hits the El Nino warm air currents coming up from the south later in the year, all squeezed into a narrow corridor over the West Coast... you're going to get rainstorm events that drop months worth of rainfall in just a few hours, falling onto baked hard soil that's unable to absorb it. There will be so much flooding.
It's for the mountains at the north end of the county, not in the conurbation. We are, however, under flood watch through Saturday.
I'm given to understand that LA, like Phoenix, would experience a light dusting of snow every so often until the urban heat island grew large enough to make that nigh impossible.
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Warmer oceans
= increased evaporation off the ocean surface
= greater snowfalls
plus other changes, too
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Yup, put more energy into the system, in this case more sunlight being absorbed by darker ice-free artic waters, and you get more energetic weather. I.e the circumpolar atmospheric vortex blows stronger, wiggling more as it circulates around the top of the world, randomly bringing colder weather to lower latitudes... like L.A.
You wait until that hits the El Nino warm air currents coming up from the south later in the year, all squeezed into a narrow corridor over the West Coast... you're going to get rainstorm events that drop months worth of rainfall in just a few hours, falling onto baked hard soil that's unable to absorb it. There will be so much flooding.
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I'm given to understand that LA, like Phoenix, would experience a light dusting of snow every so often until the urban heat island grew large enough to make that nigh impossible.
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:D
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