This Super El Niño Could Trigger the Highest Sea Levels Ever Recorded on the California Coast

California could be facing its worst coastal flooding on record this winter. Gizmodo reports a super El Niño is setting up to drive storm surge and high water levels along the state's coast. El Niño refers to a periodic warming of the central Pacific that tends to intensify winter storms hitting the West Coast.

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