Why majority of Californians are expecting 'weather whiplash' - San Francisco Chronicle
Why majority of Californians are expecting 'weather whiplash'
Why a majority of Californians are expecting 'weather whiplash' in near future
Luis Marines clears his driveway of debris in Pajaro (Monterey County) in March, nearly three weeks after a levee breach flooded the town. Brontë Wittpenn/The Chronicle
Nearly a third of Californians were personally impacted by this year’s unusually wet weather, finds a new poll by the UC Berkeley Institute of Governmental Studies.
The vast majority of those polled expect that extremely heavy rains and snowstorms, sandwiching severe droughts, will become even more commonplace in the near future.
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