SoCal’s wettest Christmas holiday ever, and the intensifying drought-to-deluge cycle behind it ^61.8%

Los Angeles Times - By Rong-Gong Lin II - 12/26/2025, 11:00 AM

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... more