Back-to-back atmospheric river storms are set to hit Los Angeles County this week — giving the region much-needed moisture ...

A major atmospheric river storm is barreling toward California, raising the specter of damaging landslides and flooding across much of the Southland.

After thousands of homes were destroyed, many are looking for ways to make Los Angeles safer from wildfires. But clearing ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Rain began falling in parched Southern California ... of the Otay Mountain Wilderness near the U.S.-Mexico border. The rain was expected to snap a near-record streak of dry weather ...

Southern California mountain communities are concerned over ... “[Mudslides] can cause some problems, sure, because the vegetation is burnt to a crisp, so it can’t hold anything,” said ...

Forecasters believe there's little risk that the rains expected next week will trigger debris flows and mudslides in Southern ...

It could rain for many hours each day in the middle of next week as the edge of one of these storms takes a swing into ...

Hydroclimate whiplash -- the rapid shift between wet and dry conditions -- likely contributed to the severity of the wildfires in Southern California, experts say.

After that, a stretch of intense, record-breaking heat dried out much of that vegetation ... California, dry conditions are also now more likely to last later into the fall, leaving the region ...

John Abatzoglou, a climatologist at the University of California at Merced, noted that the vegetation ... mountains and foothills, and 30 to 45 mph in lower elevations surrounding those regions.

After that, a stretch of intense, record-breaking heat dried out much of that vegetation ... California, dry conditions are also now more likely to last later into the fall, leaving the region ...