Is China behind California’s 2017 catastrophic rain? New study finds a surprising ‘climate teleconnection’ linking the Rocky Mountains and Tibetan Plateau
California’s catastrophic rainfall in early 2017 and 2023 may have had an unexpected connection thousands of miles away. A new study has identified a climate teleconnection linking unusually warm temperatures over the Tibetan Plateau with extreme precipitation across California and neighboring western states. The research suggests that warming over the high-altitude plateau helped create an…