1/7/2024 0 Comments Diablo 3 update today 4/01/18While scientists caution that no individual weather event or single disastrous season can be attributed to climate change, experts do see the imprint of global warming on wildfire activity. But the onset of the rains came later than usual, so there was no relief against the tinderbox conditions that caused the flames to spread out of control. And once they started, they were fanned in northern California by the Diablo winds and in the southern part of the state by the Santa Ana, which typically kick in just as rainy season starts. The record-breaking hot temperatures that followed meant that abundant dry and fire-prone vegetation was available to fuel the fires. Although the ample precipitation in the winter essentially ended the state’s five-year drought, it also allowed grasses and other plant life to thrive. In 2017, Mother Nature provided the “perfect ingredients” for the fires that would ravage California late in the year, explains Park Williams, a research professor at Columbia University’s Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory in Palisades, New York. They include land-use and zoning policies, woodland-management and fire-suppression practices, and the weather. The factors that contribute to intense and destructive wildfires are complex and interrelated.
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