Home About Contact Links FAQ top banner ad Special update: The Extraordinary California Drought of 2013-2014: Character, Context, and the Role of Climate Change Filed in Uncategorized by Daniel Swain on September 29, 2014 • 8 Comments A note from the author This special update is a little different from what I typically post on the California Weather Blog. In the paragraphs below, I discuss results from and context for a study that my colleagues and I recently published in a special issue of the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society (Swain et al. 2014). The Ridiculously Resilient Ridge at its peak during January 2014. (Daniel Swain) Unlike the majority of content on this blog, this report has undergone scientific peer review—an important distinction to make in the science blogosphere—and claims made on the basis of our peer-reviewed findi...