 Meanwhile, a series of major storms caused extensive flooding in California in December 2010, with seven consecutive days of non-stop rainfall, leading to one of the wettest Decembers in over 120 years of records.This is in contrast to the drier-than-normal conditions typically associated with La Niña in California, especially in the south.In 2011, on a global scale, La Niña events helped keep the average global temperature below recent trends.