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Wednesday, 14 November 2018

When will this terrible wildfire season in California end?

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Rain will be the antidote to the worst of this California fire season.

Most years, some meaningful rains would have already arrived. But California's grasses, woodlands, and forests remain profoundly parched — with some areas even matching or exceeding records for dryness after record-breaking summer heat and persistently dry autumn winds. 

While rains won't completely stomp out California's fires, it will significantly reduce the likelihood of vast areas of land continuing to catch fire. This year's sustained dryness, however, is a foreshadowing of future parched, rainless falls. 

"It’s been pretty bleak this year," Paul Ullrich, a climate scientist at the University of California, Davis, said in an interview.  Read more...

More about Science, Global Warming, Climate Change, Rain, and California Fires

from Mashable https://mashable.com/article/california-rain-wildfire-season-2018/
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