La Niña, a Pacific cooling pattern, has emerged for the fifth time in six years, threatening California with drought and disrupting global weather. Recent La Niña events have caused $258 billion to ...

More than half of California was “abnormally dry” just days into the new year, according to the U.S. Drought Monitor’s latest update. As of Friday, Jan. 3, areas of “moderate drought” were isolated to ...

Despite fierce rainstorms and atmospheric rivers battering California in recent weeks, the state continues to grapple with ...

Southern California and a central pocket of the state are forecasted to see drought conditions persist with no improvement into the summer. It comes as most of California faces higher likelihoods of ...

California has a water problem. After years of drought, it seemed as if no relief was in sight. Then came January 2023, when the Golden State was hit with 31 atmospheric rivers, record rainfall and a ...

In the wake of a biblical blizzard that unloaded nearly 100 inches of snow on California, AccuWeather is making a major announcement: California will be free of widespread drought through at least ...

Greenhouse gases and aerosols emitted by human activity make droughts worse. The western United States is in the midst of an intensifying drought. In the latest U.S. Drought Monitor released Thursday, ...

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. In ...