Lydia O’Connor is a general assignment reporter for the Huffington Post based in her native San Francisco and graduate of the University of Southern California’s Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism. She has previously worked at Los Angeles Magazine and Angeleno Magazine. https://www.newsdeeply.com/water/contributor/lydia-oconnor-huffington-post/rss en Climate & Weather Fri, 24 Mar 2017 04:00:21 +0000 Lydia O’Connor, Huffington Post https://www.newsdeeply.com/water/articles/2017/03/24/californias-wild-climate-to-become-more-volatile-as-temperatures-rise https://www.newsdeeply.com/water/articles/2017/03/24/californias-wild-climate-to-become-more-volatile-as-temperatures-rise A warmer world means more consequences, including more severe droughts and floods, which will push California’s already variable climate to further extremes.