Doug and I are thinking of the families whose homes, businesses, and schools are still in danger, and we are praying for our fellow Californians who have been evacuated.
‘Plenty of fuel’ for wildfires due to California’s dry autumn Professor Alex Hall of UCLA described the situation as “one of the most powerful wind events of the season,”
With the explosive fire already raging and gusts of 80 to 90 mph predicted. Southern California has had a scorching summer and dry autumn over the last year,
Which Hall, head of the university’s Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, said has produced “plenty of fuel for potential wildfires.”
“These intense winds have the potential to turn a small spark into a conflagration that eats up thousands of acres with alarming speed — a dynamic that.
Is only intensifying with the warmer temperatures of a changing climate,” he said. According to UCLA Climate Scientist Daniel Swain,
