These fires come after the wettest winter in Norcal in the last 100 years.
Wettest winter = lots of tall grass. High winds, very low humidity. Grass fires are common. However, I don’t remember shopping areas burning to this degree, they are surrounded by concrete parking lots.
I hate fires. I bought a full-size fire truck to protect my property.
“These fires come after the wettest winter in Norcal in the last 100 years.”
Coniferous trees burn even when wet.
“These fires come after the wettest winter in Norcal in the last 100 years.”
Yep - all that water causes LOTS of little green things to grow. Which of course turn into LOTS of little brown things after a dry summer. Although this year wasn’t it a little wetter than normal for the summer?
Up here in Seattle we had a dry summer - 55 days without rain - then we had 0.002 inches which stopped the counting for one day in August. (Yes, the decimal is correct). I think it was the middle of September when we had the next rain - but that was actually worth something (0.25 inches or so).
I have never heard of it happening up here, but seeing the fires in California many years ago, I worry about our tree-filled neighborhood suburbia going up in flames sometimes. I can’t imagine what they are going through down there.