Rong-Gong Lin II is a reporter for the Los Angeles Times based in San Francisco who specializes in covering statewide earthquake safety issues and other natural disasters, public health and extreme weather. He was a member of the reporting teams that won the Pulitzer Prize for breaking news in 2016 and were finalists in 2015 and 2024. Lin won the California Newspaper Publishers Assn.’s Freedom of Information Award and the University of Florida’s Joseph L. Brechner Freedom of Information Award. He was a finalist for the Ursula and Gilbert Farfel Prize for Excellence in Investigative Reporting, the Knight Award for Public Service and a Gerald Loeb Award. A San Francisco area native, he graduated from UC Berkeley in 2004, and lived in the San Gabriel Valley for more than a decade before returning to the Bay Area.
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As Southern California recovers from a massive Christmas storm, more rain is in the forecast for next week.
With a wind speed of up to 80 mph, a brief tornado traveled for about one-third of a mile in Boyle Heights, a neighborhood on L.A.’s Eastside, just after 10 a.m.
Scientists attribute these extreme weather swings to climate change, warning of intensifying “hydroclimate whiplash” patterns globally.
Se prevé que las lluvias que han afectado a la región durante la Navidad continúen durante el fin de semana, aunque los meteorólogos indicaron que el miércoles sería el día con las precipitaciones más intensas.
The region’s wet Christmas is expected to continue through the weekend, though forecasters said Wednesday was expected to be the most intense day of rain.
It is not yet clear whether the new H3N2 Flu A subclade K subvariant will reduce the efficacy of the flu vaccine this season.
The last time downtown got 2 or more inches of rain over Christmas Eve and Christmas Day was in 1971.
For more than a month, the Bay Area has been subjected to a seemingly ceaseless stampede of earthquakes, rattling windows and raising fears across California.
This could be one of the stormiest Christmases in recent memory. There’s an 80% chance downtown Los Angeles will get 2 or more inches of rain Tuesday through Christmas.
A powerful Pineapple Express storm could end up delivering a wet, white and potentially wild Christmas to California, with the possibility of snow in the Sierra and plenty of rainfall across the Southland.