Pain from the Pineapple: Cyclone Bomb headed to Climate-clobbered California

Douglas McIntyre, editor-in-chief at Climate Crisis 24/7, explains how California, once in a record-breaking twelve-hundred-year drought, is now bracing for fifteen inches of rain due to a “cyclone bomb.” This extreme weather, driven by the Pineapple Express — a massive atmospheric river transporting moisture across the Pacific — highlights the stark volatility of climate change, with California’s oscillation between being the driest and wettest region underscoring the unpredictability of future weather patterns.