With extreme weather incidents increasing due to climate change, California is now grappling with an atmospheric river that's bringing "bomb cyclone"-level rainfall to our parched landscape thanks to drought conditions that are several years in the making. And that's a recipe for dangerous flooding.
A new study shows how L.A. County may be vastly underestimating its flood risk and how a "hundred-year flood" would disproportionately affect the county's Black communities.
The recent rainfall has prompted Los Angeles County Health Officer, Muntu Davis, MD, MPH, to caution residents about the bacteria, chemicals, debris, trash, and other public health hazards from city streets and mountain areas, which are likely to contaminate ocean waters at and around discharging storm drains, creeks, and rivers after a storm.
The Los Angeles County Health Officer has issued a Cold Weather Alert for the Santa Clarity Valley beginning Friday, due to the National Weather Service’s forecast for low temperatures. Wind chill temperatures are expected to be below 32 degrees Fahrenheit.
The recent rainfall has prompted Los Angeles County Health Officer, Muntu Davis, MD, MPH, to caution residents about the bacteria, chemicals, debris, trash, and other public health hazards from city streets and mountain areas, which are likely to contaminate ocean waters at and around discharging storm drains, creeks, and rivers after a storm.