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Southwest Climate Podcast: Scant Precipitation and Resilient Ridges | CLIMAS

 

Southwest Climate Podcast: Scant Precipitation and Resilient Ridges

Tuesday, January 28, 2014

In the January Southwest Climate Podcast, CLIMAS climate scientists Zack Guido and Mike Crimmins discuss the scant precipitation in recent months across the West and the role of the "ridiculously resilient ridge" – a persistent area of high pressure parked off the West Coast – in steering storms away from the region.