Pretty sobering scenarios indeed from the final paragraphs.
Abatzoglou noted that some of the harrowing scenes across Northern California in 2020 were due to an extreme and unusual dry lightning siege in mid-August that ignited thousands of fires in one night. “But in 2021 I am less convinced of bad luck,” he said. “Climate change is aiding in the warming and the more rapid drying of fuels that predispose the land to large fires.”
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Originally Posted by multiweb
Interesting article here with comparison maps over the past five decades. The drought graph since 2000 is sobering. |