{"id":384811,"date":"2026-07-03T10:20:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-03T10:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/384811\/"},"modified":"2026-07-03T10:20:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-03T10:20:08","slug":"california-southern-states-brace-for-strong-el-nino-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/384811\/","title":{"rendered":"California, Southern states brace for strong El Ni\u00f1o system"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Western states and the federal government are preparing supplies and emergency repair kits ahead of what is expected to be an unusually strong El Ni\u00f1o weather system this year that could bring torrential rains and strong winds.<\/p>\n<p>The National Weather Service <a href=\"https:\/\/www.noaa.gov\/news-release\/el-nino-forms-expected-to-strengthen-say-noaa-forecasters\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">said<\/a> last month that an El Ni\u00f1o system has developed in the tropical Pacific Ocean. Forecasters predicted a 63% chance that sea surface temperatures will exceed 2 degrees Celsius above average, a threshold past which the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration considers it a \u201cvery strong\u201d system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Western states and the federal government are preparing supplies and emergency repair kits ahead of what is expected&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":384812,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7,9,8],"class_list":["post-384811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=384811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384811\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/384812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=384811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=384811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=384811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}