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California braces for flooding and landslides as super El Niño looms

Original: “ After years of erosion, California is bracing for flooding and landslides ahead of this year’s expected super El Niño,

California is preparing for flooding and landslides as forecasters expect a strong El Niño this year, a warming of equatorial Pacific waters that disrupts weather worldwide. After years of coastal erosion — with Pacifica, south of San Francisco, already hit — officials warn the storms the pattern typically brings could prove especially damaging to weakened coastlines and hillsides.

Why now: An expected super El Niño is raising fears of severe winter storms in a state already weakened by years of erosion.

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• “ After years of erosion, California is bracing for flooding and landslides ahead of this year’s expected super El Niño, a temporary warming in parts of the equatorial Pacific known to warp weather worldwide. Already this year, the town of Pacifica south of San Francisco… · czds · 5

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