Wildfire Researchers Forecast 2021 Fire Season That May Be More Severe Than 2020
Firefighters perform structure protection against the Glass Fire in Napa County on October 1, 2020, in Calistoga, California.
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Earlier this April, researchers at San José State University’s Wildfire Interdisciplinary Research Center in Northern California were gathering chamise at Blackberry Hill, a site in the nearby Santa Cruz Mountains. In the past few years, it was a site that they had revisited to gather samples of the native shrub. While surveying the land at the site, the researchers made a disconcerting discovery: new, green growth was nowhere to be found.
really up for the arctic circle down to california, the desert south west, and its duration of it. it s not a one day wonder. this is like a three, four day long heatwave, and as you get longer, it causes more heat is used. they can stand one day a bit but not seven days. it is taking its toll on people. one day of it. forecasters are blaming the heat wave on a heat dome of high pressure that s stretched across california to canada s arctic territories, and all the way inland through idaho. it s now ”am in portland and it s 39 degrees celsius. the forecast is for 47 degrees by lipm. nicholas bond is a climatologist and joins me from seattle. temperatures there are expected to reach 42 degrees. thank you very much forjoining us. before we get into the macro questions about what is happening here, i mustjust ask you, what is it like at the moment? it is brutal.