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Альберт Хаммонд Майк Хезлвуд
Rain patterns are changing In the Southwest, meanwhile, rainfall is suppressed by a northward expansion of high pressure in the subtropics. The crippling drought now plaguing California is due to a persistent high pressure system off of the coast that is deflecting storms away from the region.
1972 г.
Usually, It Doesn’t Rain for Months California has one of the most well-defined wet and dry seasons anywhere in the Lower 48 states. It is typical to go months without a single drop of rain from late spring into early fall.
Definition of it never rains but it pours chiefly British, informal. —used to say that when something bad happens other bad things usually happen at the same timeThe team not only lost the game but three of its best players were injured. It never rains but it pours .
76 years (May 18, 1944)
Snow is uncommon west of the Sierra Nevada, except in the Cascades and the Coast Range, but it has fallen in nearly every area of the state. Snow is lighter east of the Sierra Nevada because of the snow shadow effect. Even sunny Southern California gets snow occasionally.
In the latest sign that El Nino conditions are likely to bring wet weather to drought-parched California , federal scientists on Thursday announced for the first time that the entire state – including the northern part of California from the Bay Area to the Oregon border – is now expected to receive average or above-
Los Angeles County’s coldest month is December when the average temperature overnight is 48.3°F. In August, the warmest month, the average day time temperature rises to 84.8°F.
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It’s because the central-to-southern coast of California has a generally Mediterranean-style climate, due to the drier nature of the U.S. west of the 100th parallel and the influence of the Pacific Ocean.
The northern parts of California have more rain than the south, and it’s because of the mountains. The part of California that is almost all of the time sunny is definitely the Death Valley. The Death Valley is a desert and it is the hottest place in the whole world, and it has the highest temperature in the world.