Blizzards in LA?

[conuly]

Wow. That can be chalked up to climate change probably, right?

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[siliconshaman]

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.