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Weather West

California weather and climate perspectives.

  • By Daniel Swain
  • Based in United States of America
  • Roughly one post per month
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Month starting Posts
Jul 2023 1
Aug 2023 2
Sep 2023 1
Oct 2023 1
Nov 2023 2
Dec 2023 0

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Most recent posts

Warm Thanksgiving ridge pattern will likely transition toward progressively wetter pattern around early Dec
Warm and dry pattern for the Thanksgiving holiday week Last week brought a complex and hard-to-predict weather pattern to California: a large and slow-moving cut-off low pressure system took its time inching toward the coast, …
On , by Daniel Swain, 108 words
Major early-season storm to affect CA by mid-Nov; Plus, new thoughts on implications of still-strengthening El Niño for CA winter
A pretty benign autumn weather pattern in CA (so far) As far as autumns go, 2023 has been mercifully calm from a weather and wildfire perspective across California. Although there several periods of elevated fire …
On , by Daniel Swain, 126 words
Climate change is narrowing and shifting prescribed fire windows in the western United States
Note: This special Weather West article focuses on new peer-reviewed scientific research, recently published in the journal Communications Earth and Environment, that I led with the help of a team of collaborators from UC Merced, …
On , by Daniel Swain, 108 words