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Southern California experienced a healthy, widespread dosage of rainfall early Sunday morning, and some scattered showers could last into Monday, according to the National Weather Service. By 11 a.m.,
In Southern California, strong El Niños increase the likelihood of wet winters that replenish water supplies and reduce wildfire risk but can also unleash flooding and coastal erosion.
El Niño is the warming of the sea surface temperatures thousands of miles away from the Bay Area in the Equatorial Pacific.