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Los Angeles averages only 14.7 inches (373 mm) of precipitation per year, and this is lower at the coast and higher in the mountains and foothill cities. [24] Snow is extremely rare in the Greater Los Angeles area and basin, but the nearby San Gabriel Mountains and San Bernardino Mountains typically receive a heavy amount of snow every winter ...
Property and Environment Research Center (PERC), Montana; Smithsonian Environmental Research Center (SERC) Southern California Coastal Water Research Project Authority (SCCWRP) [26] UC Davis Tahoe Environmental Research Center (TERC) UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, University of California at Los Angeles [27]
USC WIES. The USC Wrigley Institute for Environmental Studies is an environmental research and education facility run by the University of Southern California.It is an organized research unit that encompasses a wide range of faculty and topics across the university as well as operating a marine laboratory at the edge of Two Harbors, California on Catalina Island approximately 22 miles (35 km ...
From January 7 to 31, 2025, a series of 17 destructive wildfires affected the Los Angeles metropolitan area and San Diego County in California, United States. [5]The fires were exacerbated by drought conditions, low humidity, a buildup of vegetation from the previous winter, and hurricane-force Santa Ana winds, which in some places reached 100 miles per hour (160 km/h; 45 m/s).
A 2011 study projected that the frequency and magnitude of both maximum and minimum temperatures would increase significantly as a result of global warming. [13] According to the Fifth National Climate Assessment published in 2023, coastal states including California, Florida, Louisiana, and Texas are experiencing "more significant storms and extreme swings in precipitation".
Los Angeles, [a] often referred to by its initials L.A., is the most populous city in the U.S. state of California.With an estimated 3,820,914 residents within the city limits as of 2023, [8] it is the second-most populous city in the United States, behind only New York City; it is also the commercial, financial and cultural center of Southern California.
Climate data for Los Angeles (Dodger Stadium, Downtown), 1991–2020 normals, extremes 1877–present. Month Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Year
The Thomas and Dorothy Leavey Center for the Study of Los Angeles (StudyLA) is a non-profit, non-partisan education and research institute at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, California. The Center for the Study of LA was founded in 1996 by Loyola Marymount University Political Science and Chicana/o studies professor Dr. Fernando ...