Wildfires Raging in California

[Mowich]

Apparently high winds are driving the ferocious blaze and thousands of houses are threatened. Poor old California.

Fast Moving California Wildfires Force Hundreds to Evacuate - YouTube

 

[Walter]

If they were allowed to clean up the underbrush the problem would be less severe.

 

[petros]

I hope the ocean warms up soon so it rains.

 

[Zipperfish]

Clearcutting prevents forest fires. :lol:

 

[petros]

Fires prevent fires.

 

[Zipperfish]

"...
the control of small, frequent fluctuations has resulted time and again in a growing vulnerability to rare but large perturbations."
William C. Clark, "Witches, Floods and Wonder Drugs"

Best risk assessment paper ever.

 

[BaalsTears]

We've had a very dry winter in California. This will be a bad wildfire season.

 

[petros]

The overheated oceans are too cold to make it rain.