Yesterday, I read an article¹, where it says in the context of this year’s astronomical ocean temperatures:
“The land tends to warm up more than the ocean, but if the ocean is so warm, you essentially start having very high temperatures and dry conditions because the ocean is evaporating and raining on itself,” Dr Bracco said.
As I understand this, normally it would rain near the coast, because that’s where the ocean would heat up the most, under pre-climate-change conditions. And that’s now out of wonk, generally leading to droughts.
Maybe California is for whatever reason in an inversed situation, where their rainfall likeliness is actually improved by the hot oceans…