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Mineral is an unincorporated place in Tehama County, California, United States. It has been part of a much larger census-designated place since 1980, for which the population was 123 at the 2010 census, down from 143 at the 2000 census.
A person holding an umbrella watches the Los Angeles river during heavy rains in Los Angeles, California, on February 5, 2024. - Aude Guerrucci/Reuters
Every county in California has experienced a flood, which is mostly likely to be caused by an atmospheric river, which is a narrow corridor of moisture in the air that travels a long distance to produce heavy rainfall. [4] The state of California spends more than US$2.8 billion annually on maintaining or building flood control projects. [5]
This brings more intense rainfall and associated flooding, as well as more intense drought in many regions. It has been both predicted by scientists and observed in the last years and documented by the IPCC (International Panel for Climate Change 6th assessment report). [15] Before the rains started, California had been in an extreme drought. [16]
Climate change review reveals flooding trend David Gregory-Kumar - Science, environment & rural affairs correspondent, BBC Midlands Today February 12, 2025 at 7:55 AM
Over the next three decades, the cost of flood damage is on pace to rise 26% due to climate change alone, an analysis of our new flood risk maps shows. That’s only part of the risk.
A 2011 study projected that the frequency and magnitude of both maximum and minimum temperatures would increase significantly as a result of global warming. [13] According to the Fifth National Climate Assessment published in 2023, coastal states including California, Florida, Louisiana, and Texas are experiencing "more significant storms and extreme swings in precipitation".
A dreaded repeat of the flood — which killed at least 4,000 people and turned the Central Valley into a 300-mile-long sea — would probably eclipse the devastation of a major California ...