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These clouds were also enough to delay the landing of the Space Shuttle Columbia for a day, and cause it to land in Florida instead of California. [21] August 23, 1992 – The outskirts of Tropical Storm Lester produced thunderstorms across the deserts of southern California, which produced flash flooding in Death Valley and along US 95 and CA ...
Santa Barbara County has been cloud seeding with both ground-based machines and dedicated cloud-seeding airplanes since the 1980s. [1] In 2016, Los Angeles County rebooted its cloud seeding program (with ground-based machines) for the first time after 2002. [1]
Downtown Los Angeles had received 8.51 inches (216 mm) of rain from February 4–6 making it the second wettest three-day span. [20] Following 1.66 in (42 mm) of rain in Death Valley in 72 hours, California State Route 190 was closed and the park experienced a setback in the recovery from Hurricane Hilary .
The Desert Research Institute (DRI), the state of Nevada’s research group, says cloud seeding can increase seasonal precipitation by about 10%, while the World Meteorological Organization ...
In 1973, the National Hurricane Center introduced the Saffir-Simpson scale, a five-category rating system that classified hurricanes by wind intensity.. At the bottom of the scale was Category 1 ...
Clouds have a higher albedo than the underlying ocean, which causes more incoming solar radiation to be reflected back to space. Since the tops of tropical systems are much cooler than the surface of the Earth, the presence of high convective clouds cools the climate system. The most recognizable cloud system in the tropics is the hurricane. In ...
Aerial footage of historic stadium played convincing trick on the eye
The Los Angeles River, which was usually low during September, became a raging torrent. [7] With heavy rain immediately preceding the tropical storm, flooding killed 45 in Southern California. [8] At sea, 48 were killed. [1] However, the National Hurricane Center only attributes 45 deaths to this system. [9]