When the air is warm and dry, transpiration and evaporation also suck water out of the plants and soil. That leaves dry ...

The drought map highlights significant disparities across the state. While Northern California and parts of the Bay Area ...

Despite recent rounds of winter rain and powerful waves that pummeled the coastline, most of California is continuing to bake ...

He put Southern California's dryness into perspective using charts and maps. In early January ... seasonal outlook through March suggests that drought is likely to develop in the region in ...

California is entering the fourth month of what is typically the rainy season, but in the Southland, the landscape is ...

“This is a tragic time in our history,” said Los Angeles County Police Department Sheriff Jim McDonnell during a press ...

As climate change warms the planet, wildfires have become so unpredictable and extreme that new words were invented: firenado, gigafire, fire siege — even fire pandemic. California has 78 more annual ...

Despite fierce rainstorms and atmospheric rivers battering California in recent weeks, the state continues to grapple with significant drought conditions, fuelling "extreme" fire weather this week.

an analyst with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and a map author. Yet, during that same time frame, “moderate drought was expanded” across Southern California, Nevada and ...