California wildfires leave at least 6 dead, cause 'unbelievable' destruction

Bar Sinister

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Do you want to know why Paradise burned? It is simple enough. Most of California is a Mediterranean climate, which means it gets summer drought and winter rain. The dry season usually runs from May to September and then the rains begin. This year in the Paradise area that did not happen. Normally Paradise gets about 79 mm of precipitation in October and 179 mm in November. This year it got only 3 mm in October and zero for the first 20 days of November. As a result the area was bone dry, a perfect condition for a deadly forest fire that may have killed as many as a thousand Americans.



Now, I am not saying this has anything to do with climate change, but it is an usual event, given that the fire burned in what is usually one of the wetter months of the year.






October rainfall 2018, Paradise California
https://www.accuweather.com/en/us/paradise-ca/95969/november-weather/337193?monyr=11/1/2018&view=table

 
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Aren’t they ? Sad but true fact , they lost their very lives. Wonderful , let’s makeit about Trump .
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There are "losers" and there are "losers".

Some losers burn to deaths in their cars because they forgot to rake up the forest and other losers live in Surrey.
 
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Bar Sinister said:
Do you want to know why Paradise burned? It is simple enough. Most of California is a Mediterranean climate, which means it gets summer drought and winter rain. The dry season usually runs from May to September and then the rains begin. This year in the Paradise area that did not happen. Normally Paradise gets about 79 mm of precipitation in October and 179 mm in November. This year it got only 3 mm in October and zero for the first 20 days of November. As a result the area was bone dry, a perfect condition for a deadly forest fire that may have killed as many as a thousand Americans.
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Calif also has another factor that cause problem in fire season.
https://la.curbed.com/2018/10/15/17978292/los-angeles-weather-winds-santa-ana-fire-risk
Extreme warm and dry winds are blowing across parts of Los Angeles this morning in what forecasters are calling one of the most powerful Santa Ana wind events in decades.
The biggest gusts are barreling through Malibu and the Hollywood Hills and were expected to peak after daybreak and into the late morning before weakening tonight.
Earlier this morning, the National Weather Service recorded wind gusts of 56 mph in Chatsworth, 48 mph in Burbank, and 62 mph in Malibu. In the Santa Monica Mountains, gusts have already hit 66 mph and could get as high as 75 mph, according to the Weather Service.
“This is one of the strongest wind events we’ve seen in years,” said NBC4 forecaster Shanna Mendiola.
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Baja might be a preview of what Calif would look like if the climate changed for the drier even went the mountains get lots of snow.
 
Danbones

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A little different from where you are.

I suppose if people hate their children they should take fire prevention lessons form you.
 
petros

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It's weird but the colder the desert is the stronger and drier the Santa Anas are.

Global warming should make them go away.
 
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Wildfire has always been part of the California ecosystem and always will be.

The changes in climate are producing changes in these fires as is logical.
 
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