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11 <br />Climate change has already affected and will continue to <br />affect San Mateo County <br />The region's annual maximum temperature increased 1.7°F from 1950-2005 <br />Coastal fog, which is critical to the region's climate and ecosystem, is less frequent <br />,,..f. than ever before <br />A I Sea level has risen over 8 inches in the last century <br />The forceful 2015-2016 EI Nino weather pattern, which was one of the three largest <br />in history, resulted in unprecedented outer coast beach erosion due to winter wave <br />energy that was more than 50% greater than a typical winter <br />The 2012-2016 Statewide drought led to the most drastic moisture shortages in the <br />last 1,200 years, resulting in 1 -in -500 year low in Sierra snowpack. This drastically <br />vLIL-Z reduced snowpack resulted in $2.1 billion in economic losses, 21,000 jobs lost <br />statewide in agricultural and recreational sectors, and continuing exhaustion of <br />groundwater source <br />5 of 23 <br />