Thousands of viewers tuned in to a virtual town hall this week with climate experts providing insight into the possible impacts of a super El Niño event in the Bay Area and across the state.

“We may be seeing an event that we haven’t really seen before in living memory in California,” said climate scientist Daniel Swain. “The impacts of that are something that’s really the focus of tonight’s conversation.”

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Alise is a general assignment reporter with a focus on covering government, elections, housing, crime, courts and entertainment in San Francisco and on the Peninsula. Alise is a Bay Area native from San Carlos. She studied history at University of California, Santa Cruz and first started journalism at Skyline College’s school newspaper in San Bruno. She has interned for Bay City News and for Eesti Rahvusringhääling, or Estonian Public Broadcasting. She has covered everything from the removal of former San Mateo County Sheriff Christina Corpus to the divisive battle over the Great Highway on San Francisco’s west side. Please send her any tips.