How Climate Change May Be Impacting California's Recent Winter Storms

After an epic windstorm, California is now bracing for bone chilling cold that will bring snow to virtually every part of the state.

“It generally happens on the scale from every five to 10 years,” said Brian Garcia, National Weather Service Meteorologist.

This winter alone we’ve gone from drought to atmospheric rivers flooding the region. The extreme weather, an example of what the national weather service meteorologist are calling “weather whiplash.”

“This drought over the last few years we busted that in about a week and a half. So, we are starting to see that whiplash of drought to rain and back again,” Garcia said.

The same storm system

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