How California could save up its rain to ease future droughts — instead of watching epic atmospheric river rainfall drain into the Pacific
- Written by Andrew Fisher, Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of California, Santa Cruz
Heavy rain from a series of atmospheric rivers flooded large parts of California from late December 2022 into early January 2023.Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu Agency via Getty ImagesCalifornia has seen so much rain over the past few weeks that farm fields are inundated and normally dry creeks and drainage ditches have become torrents of water racing...