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Their wordsAmid an El Niño that will become the strongest, and also easternmost-centered, event on record (if it isn't already), this year's tilt in the odds toward wet and stormy conditions in California will be profoundly unsubtle.
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Anomalously warm waters are likely to spread farther north along the Pacific coast into the winter.
Their wordsthese anomalously warm waters are very likely to spread farther north along the Pacific coast later this autumn and into the winter.
Their wordsBetween November 2026 and January 2027, I would anticipate multiple significant coastal flood events that are worse in severity and also much more widespread than what we are currently seeing.
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