LA’s dry-heat myth collapses as record humidity and warming seas reshape the coast
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Southern California’s famed dry-heat climate collapsed this summer as record humidity swept in from tropical moisture and unusually warm oceans, a pattern scientists link to climate-change–driven El Niño; the shifting conditions raise concerns about more coastal flooding, erosion and heat risk this winter and in coming years.
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