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NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Climate scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory
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Joshua Willis
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FROM Joshua Willis
Which Way, L.A.?
Is the Wild Weekend Weather a Predictor of Things to Come? Any rain in Southern California in the driest month of the year is likely to make history. Sure enough, the third-of-an inch that fell Saturday in downtown LA broke the quarter-inch record set in July of 1886. But the real stories are flooding, mud slides and debris flows -- and beaches closed by lightening. Josh Willis is a climate scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory .
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