Brian Jopek on Nostr: UCLA climate scientists Alex Hall, Park Williams, Gavin Madakumbura and others at ...

UCLA climate scientists Alex Hall, Park Williams, Gavin Madakumbura and others at UCLA’s Climate & Wildfire Research Initiative consider the factors that contributed to the fire, “to quantify how unusual these factors are, in the context of the natural weather and climate variability.” They explore and provide numbers and context to the two wet winters, the long dry spell, the fuel-moisture changes and the extreme Santa Ana winds. - Alison Hewitt

https://newsroom.ucla.edu/releases/palisades-eaton-wildfires-vegetation-25-percent-drier-climate-change?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR37MZ1kDIBeblbG_sTYZOlUAt7QC3EjwMsG6FDQOuQXYIVi0I87qraHA-4_aem_NS-Yiyhn6N5RC3vR7xuJng