The Ridiculously Resilient Ridge, Jan. 2014 (IMAGE)

Stanford University

The Ridiculously Resilient Ridge, Jan. 2014

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Scientists agree that the immediate cause of the California drought is a particularly stubborn "blocking ridge" over the northeastern Pacific -- popularly known as the Ridiculously Resilient Ridge, or "Triple R" -- that prevented winter storms from reaching California during the 2013 and 2014 rainy seasons.

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Daniel Swain, Stanford School of Earth Sciences

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