Isaac Sanchez, the deputy chief of communications for Cal Fire, put it more plainly: “The landscape in all of Southern California is ready to burn.” The moisture-starved vegetation and the ...

Now, the weather pendulum has swung the other way. Drought has swept over the Southern California landscape after one of the region’s hottest summers on record, and the driest start to the rainy ...

Current forecasts show little hope that a needed storm could develop in the next few weeks, and the Southern California landscape — ripe for wildfire and never far from chronic water shortages ...

California is entering the fourth month of what is typically the rainy season, but in the Southland, the landscape is beginning to show signs of drought. The last time Los Angeles recorded ...

Ordinarily, the region would have seen some rain by January. By Amy Graff Amy Graff is a reporter on The Times’s weather team. Southern California is extremely dry right now, with huge portions ...

Mountain lions and other wildlife adapted to the wildfires that shaped the Southern California landscape over thousands of years. Many animals respond to cues that act as early warning signs of ...

SAN DIEGO — Drought is back in Southern California — a region that has not seen significant rain for nearly nine months — and the remarkable dryness has made the landscape vulnerable to ...

Now, the weather pendulum has swung the other way. Drought has swept over the Southern California landscape after one of the region’s hottest summers on record, and the driest start to the rainy ...