{"id":78979,"date":"2026-09-21T14:55:58","date_gmt":"2026-09-21T19:55:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/21\/california-braces-for-record-el-nino-storms-as-governor-declares-emergency\/"},"modified":"2026-09-21T14:55:58","modified_gmt":"2026-09-21T19:55:58","slug":"california-braces-for-record-el-nino-storms-as-governor-declares-emergency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/21\/california-braces-for-record-el-nino-storms-as-governor-declares-emergency\/","title":{"rendered":"California braces for record El Ni\u00f1o storms as governor declares emergency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Super El-Ni\u00f1o has already broken temperature records and is predicted to bring an extremely wet winter to the state<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2026\/sep\/21\/super-el-nino-temperature-record\">\u2018Jaw-dropping\u2019 El Ni\u00f1o bursts through temperature record months before peak<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>California is bracing for a record breaking El Ni\u00f1o that is expected to bring severe winter storms and flooding across the state, with the state\u2019s governor declaring a state of emergency in anticipation of extreme weather in the months ahead.<\/p>\n<p>The global climate phenomenon known as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2026\/sep\/15\/rise-global-temperatures-super-el-nino\">a \u201csuper El Ni\u00f1o\u201d<\/a> is already <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2026\/sep\/21\/super-el-nino-temperature-record\">breaking temperature records<\/a> and drawing predictions of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/aug\/08\/super-el-nino-winter-flooding\">an extremely wet winter<\/a> in places such as California, where El Ni\u00f1o typically brings more severe winter storms and flooding risks. Several coastal California cities <a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.com\/US\/stressful-winter-el-nino-fueled-coastal-erosion-california\/story?id=136537040\">have recently faced <\/a>high surf, flooding and coastal erosion linked to Hurricane Marie as well as El Ni\u00f1o. Experts have said the effects offered a glimpse at what the coming winter could look like.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/sep\/21\/california-el-nino-storm-state-of-emergency\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Super El-Ni\u00f1o has already broken temperature records and is predicted to bring an extremely wet winter to the state \u2018Jaw-dropping\u2019 El Ni\u00f1o bursts through temperature record months before peak California is bracing for a record breaking El Ni\u00f1o that is expected to bring severe winter storms and flooding across the state, with the state\u2019s governor &#8230; <a title=\"California braces for record El Ni\u00f1o storms as governor declares emergency\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/21\/california-braces-for-record-el-nino-storms-as-governor-declares-emergency\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about California braces for record El Ni\u00f1o storms as governor declares emergency\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78979\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}