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Rong-Gong Lin II, reporter @LATimes, covering earthquake safety, public health, extreme weather, other natural disasters and breaking news. ron.lin@latimes.com

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Rong-Gong Lin II is a general assignment reporter for the Los Angeles Times. He has written about buildings at risk of collapse in an earthquake and financial irregularities at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, which was followed by criminal indictments of six men. He was a member of a reporting team that was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize category in breaking news. A San Francisco area native, he graduated from UC Berkeley in 2004.

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A ‘super’ El Niño is brewing. Experts fear historic dangers from extreme weather

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By Rong-Gong Lin II, Ron Lin Verified
| EIN News
Predicting the weather is always tricky, with even the most solid forecasts sometimes not living up to the hype. But over the last few months, the world’s weather experts have become more united in the belief that we were going to be hit by a new El Niño climate pattern, and the consensus of computer models suggests it will probably be a very strong one.
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Brewing El Niño and roasting oceans push planet into ‘uncharted territory’ for heat

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By Rong-Gong Lin II, Ron Lin Verified
| EIN News
As extreme heat smothered the eastern United States over the July Fourth weekend and Europe struggled with its own deadly heat wave, experts warned that more record high temperatures could be in store for this year because of a strengthening El Niño. “We know that temperatures are warming in the long term, linked to human-caused climate change, and El Niño acts to boost those temperatures temporarily,” climate scientist Zachary Labe of the nonprofit Climate Central said in a recent briefing.
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El Niño has arrived: 5 ways California could get pummeled

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By Rong-Gong Lin II, Ron Lin Verified
| EIN News
El Niño has arrived and it could become one of the largest on record, and California may be in for a bumpy ride. While the climate pattern is often linked with a higher chance of more rain in Southern California, it can affect the state — and its famous coastline — in numerous ways. That’s especially possible during a strong El Niño event, as this one is shaping up to be.
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