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After months of slight temperature shifts in the Pacific Ocean, La Niña has officially returned — the climate pattern that typically drives drought in Southern California.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced Thursday that La Niña conditions had arrived, a possibly foreboding sign for the Southland.

The southern half of the Golden State still has not bounced back from the last year of below-average rainfall , and the reemergence of the ocean phenomenon could mean more drought, with another drier-than-average winter.

The previous La Niña — active from January until about April of this year — “was a substantial player” in the region’s dry winter, s

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