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The region will see under a quarter inch of rain between today and Friday. Any snowfall will drop to around 8,000 feet.
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The owls have all but completely disappeared from coastal Southern California.
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It's partly because the sun’s approaching solar maximum.
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With the change in seasons comes more risk of fire and flood. And the climate crisis is making it all more extreme.
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California's year of endless storms has seeded superblooms of wildflowers and provided a boost to some of the state's endangered ecosystems.
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