L.A. Set to Log Driest Year in More Than a Century
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LOS ANGELES, June 29 -- Barring a surprise arrival of the kind of gully washers Texas is getting these days, Los Angeles's driest year in 130 years of recordkeeping will go into the books this weekend.
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WALNUT CREEK, Calif. _ At the Golden Gate, the sea is rising.  In the Sierra Nevada, the snowpack is shrinking.  These developments, attributable to a warming climate, threaten one of California's most indispensable resources: water.
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It's shaping up to be one of the warmest years on record.
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By Samantha Young, Associated Press  SACRAMENTO -- In 1980, as California was recovering from its longest drought since the Depression, state lawmakers thought they had found a solution to weather future water shortages.
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The California Department of Water Resources (DWR) will conduct its  first snow survey of the new winter season at 11 a.m., Thursday, January  4, 2006, near Lake Tahoe.
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By Jim Downing, The Sacramento Bee, Calif.  Jun. 14--California's timber harvest dropped 5.4 percent in 2006 to 1.63 billion board-feet, the second-lowest level since 1936, a timber industry trade group noted in its annual report scheduled for release today.
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Southern Californians, fond of their private pools, golf courses, garden sprinklers and the ubiquitous car wash, are being urged to reform their water-guzzling ways after the region's driest year on record.
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Dry southern California produced parched sales this winter.
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Rain fell in the city for a fourth consecutive day Sunday, assuring that 2007 would not go down as the driest year on record for the drought-stricken Atlanta area. The most arid year ever recorded for Atlanta was 1954, when only 31.80 inches of rain fell.
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Heat waves, a scarcity of water and mountain forests dying because of heat are parts of a picture of California at the end of the century being painted by a team of 19 scientists in a new paper published by the National Academy of Sciences.
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By AP  CASTAIC, Calif.  -- Firefighters face more hot, dry weather Sunday as they struggle to contain a wildfire on nearly 20 square miles of dry brush and timber in the Los Padres National Forest.   The blaze broke out Monday about 40 miles north of Los Angeles.
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Urban air pollution may be reducing rainfall in the Central Valley and along the heavily populated southern California coast, while trimming mountain snowfall that supplies much of the state's drinking and irrigation water and hydroelectric power, a Stanford University professor's study released Thursday shows.
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The rain that has drenched California for the past several days is being caused by a cold front from the northern Pacific combining with moisture from the southern Pacific.
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By Jake Armstrong, The Record, Stockton, Calif.  Feb. 24--TRACY -- Officials plan to squirrel away some of the city's liquid assets.
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La Nina, the cooling of sea surfaces in the Pacific Ocean which can wreak havoc with weather patterns, is likely to develop by the end of the year, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said on Friday.
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For California businesses, 2005 may not quite be a year of wine and roses. But it will at least be a time of beer and daisies, according to economists at the Anderson Forecast of the University of California Los Angeles.
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By ASHLEY KINDERGAN, SPECIAL TO THE RECORD  If state funds for environmental preservation are allowed to dry up next year, the burden of creating and maintaining green space will fall to counties and municipalities, local officials said.