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Latimes | Friday, December 26, 2025
SoCal’s wettest Christmas holiday ever, and the intensifying drought-to-deluge cycle behind it
- Southern California recorded its wettest Christmas Eve-Christmas Day ever, with Santa Barbara Airport getting 4.83 inches and mountains receiving more than 10 inches. The rainfall marks a dramatic reversal from last year’s record drought that preceded devastating Altadena and Pacific Palisades wildfires. Scientists attribute these extreme weather swings to climate change, warning of intensifying “hydroclimate whiplash” patterns globally. A year ago, officials were sounding alarms about a bone-dry winter that days later would combine with wind gusts of up to 100 mph to bring about the worst fires in Los Angeles history. Now, Southern California just experienced its wettest Christmas in modern history. This Christmas Eve and Christmas Day were the rainiest in the modern record for many parts of Southern California, according to the National Weather Service office in Oxnard. And more rain is on the way. A flood watch was forecast to remain in effect for much of the state through at least Friday afternoon, with rain expected throughout the day. Skies should clear up by the weekend. This is also one of the wettest starts to the water year, which began Oct. 1. Through midday Christmas it already ranked in the 10 wettest for Southern California — a…Read more
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