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Essentially, the mountain ranges separate southern California into two distinct climatic regions: The heavy-populated coastal area west of these mountains is the one most associated with the term "southern California" and is characterized by pleasant weather all-year round, without frequent heat spells in the summer and without low temperatures ...
Golden Gate Bridge in fog Snow in the mountains of Southern California Summer in the Sierra Nevada at Lake Tahoe High precipitation in 2005 caused an ephemeral lake in the Badwater Basin of Death Valley. The climate of California varies widely from hot desert to alpine tundra, depending on latitude, elevation, and proximity to the Pacific Coast.
The climate is classified as a hot-summer Mediterranean climate in the Köppen climate classification, which is characterized by mild, rainy winters and hot, dry summers. [14] Precipitation in Woodland Hills averages much the same as most other regions of the west San Fernando Valley, although somewhat higher amounts of rainfall occur in the ...
More recently, in July 2015, moisture from Hurricane Dolores combined with monsoon moisture to create showers and storms throughout Southern California. Rainfall ranged from 0.5-4 inches ...
The last time downtown Los Angeles picked up 0.25 of an inch or greater from a single storm was back in the middle of April. Since the start of the new water year (Oct. 1), there has only been 0. ...
While some measurements suggest the 2015-2016 El Niño was the strongest on record since 1950, [29] Southern California received below average precipitation contrary to what the Climate Prediction Center predicted leading up to the winter months.
Rain continues to fall in Southern California from an atmospheric river, raising the risk for additional mudslides with more than 120 reported so far in Los Angeles.
The Town of Danville [11] is located in the San Ramon Valley in Contra Costa County, California, United States. It is one of the incorporated municipalities in California that use "town" in their names instead of "city". The population was 43,582 at the 2020 census. Since 2018, for five consecutive years, Danville was named "the safest town in ...