"Lower-than-average rainfall and record levels of parched vegetation likely mean a long, fiery summer throughout Northern California, according to the Forest Service's state fire outlook released last week.
The fires burning now could take weeks or months to bring under full control, the report said.
Those blazes were mostly sparked by lightning storms that were unusually intense for so early in the season. But summer storms would probably be even fiercer, according to the Forest Service." LINK
The fires burning now could take weeks or months to bring under full control, the report said.
Those blazes were mostly sparked by lightning storms that were unusually intense for so early in the season. But summer storms would probably be even fiercer, according to the Forest Service." LINK
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Regardless of what the global warming deniers may wish us to believe, these fires are the direct result of global warming. California has what climatologists call a Mediterranean climate, which is punctuated by dry periods on a annual basis. Wildfires are a part of the batural order in California. But not at this time of year and never so widespread. The Midwest is being flooded, which is also part of the natural order, but flooding occurs in the spring rainy season, not in the summer. The Southeast continues to languish in a drought that is now in it's third year. Periodic droughts are a part of the region's natural climate cycles, but these droughts come in three year cycles and last only a few months. Then it gets quite wet again. Eight of the last 10 years have been drought years and the regions lakes, rivers and streams are drying up. Aquifers are not being recharged and communities depending on well water are facing serious shortages, as are farmers. All of these problems are the direct result of global climate changes and they are only going to get worse.
So true! The aquifer issue is especially scary- when is our government going to wake up about this??? Thanks for commenting!
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