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Hurricane rainfall and landslide risk are on the rise in Southern California

Climate change could make historically rare tropical storms in Southern California produce significantly more precipitation in the next few decades, and when they strike, landslides are likely to become a bigger risk across the region, according to new research in Nature Climate Change.

Hurricane rainfall and landslide risk are on the rise in Southern California
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Climate change could make historically rare tropical storms in Southern California produce significantly more precipitation in the next few decades, and when they strike, landslides are likely to become a bigger risk across the region, according to new research in Nature Climate Change.

Originally published at Phys.org

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