Sonoma County will hold a town hall meeting this week to discuss the dual dangers the region faces from drought and atmospheric rivers.

On hand at the Nov. 10 forum will be Jeanine Jones, drought manager for the California Department of Water Resources, and Julie Kalansky, a climate scientist from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Kalansky is an expert on atmospheric rivers, which are “rivers in the sky” made of concentrated water vapor. They can be up to 1,000 miles long and transport warm tropical water vapor through the atmosphere and then dump it on cooler climes, such as California.

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Katy St. Clair got her start in journalism by working in the classifieds department at the East Bay Express during the height of alt weeklies, then sweet talked her way into becoming staff writer, submissions editor, and music editor. She has been a columnist in the East Bay Express, SF Weekly, and the San Francisco Examiner. Starting in 2015, she begrudgingly scaled the inverted pyramid at dailies such as the Vallejo Times-Herald, The Vacaville Reporter, and the Daily Republic. She has her own independent news site and blog that covers the delightfully dysfunctional town of Vallejo, California, where she also collaborates with the investigative team at Open Vallejo. A passionate advocate for people with developmental disabilities, she serves on both the Board of the Arc of Solano and the Arc of California. She lives in Vallejo.