It doesn’t take much rain for road intersections to wind up underwater, says Brett Sanders, a professor of civil and environmental engineering at the University of California, Irvine. He has worked to develop another effort to educate residents: a hyperlocal forecasting system to inform them of the risk that their neighborhoods — or even streets — face from a coming storm. … “This event is a bit of a wake-up call,” he said.

This idea of a changing snowpack as a result of a warming climate is what a separate set of researchers are also studying. A team from UC Irvine analyzed global NASA data dating from 1980 to 2018 and found that much of the world has undergone or is presently in some sort of snow drought. Read More