Daniel Swain has made a name for himself studying the extremes of a warming planet. Fires, floods, droughts, heat, storms: if it’s a record breaker, Swain has probably studied it.  As a weather and climate research scientist at UCLA’s Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, Swain has dedicated his life to understanding so-called “outlier events” and how climate change is super-charging them. … Based on a recent study in Science, the current El Niño is likely the strongest in over a millennium. … In a recent interview, Swain and Inside Climate News reporter Nina Dietz discussed why this El Niño is unlike anything we’ve seen before, and what it could mean for California and beyond.

Other El Niño news:

• The Sacramento Bee (Calif.): When will California see its first snow? How El Niño could impact fall, winter
• CapRadio (Sacramento, Calif.): A ‘super El Niño’ may be on the horizon. How could it impact Sacramento?
• KSBW (Salinas, Calif.): Salinas to declare local emergency ahead of El Niño
• SFGate: El Niño brings flooding risk to Bay Area despite dry forecast
• San Francisco Chronicle: Bay Area gets second-ever September coastal flood advisory as seas rise with El Niño
• Weather West: Blog: A parade of East Pacific hurricanes will miss CA (but soak the interior Southwest) before major, long-duration autumn heatwave builds