Two seemingly contradictory things are expected to happen more frequently as the world continues to warm: There will be longer, more severe droughts — and there will be bigger storms that produce more precipitation.
In general, these effects will happen in different places but in California, lengthy droughts are suddenly being replaced by successive torrential rainstorms, giving a glimpse as to what scientists figure climate change will look like.
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