September 2, 2026 - Daniel Swain - A brutally hot and humid Southern California August and a record-breaking wildfire season across interior PacNW & beyond August ended up being an exceptionally hot month across nearly the entire Southwestern U.S., including across nearly all of SoCal (even coastal areas). In fact, August was (yet again) a record warm month in many locations; in #

Twenty-five years ago this month, a reporter called with a question I couldn't answer. A 5-month-old child had died after being left in a hot vehicle, and he asked, "How hot could it have been...

June 11, 2026 - Daniel Swain - A quick refresher: What is El Niño and how can it affect global weather patterns? El Niño is the warm phase of the El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO), a semi-regular re...

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