Even as the climate changes as the wet season becomes wetter and the dry season becomes drier, PG&E has to evaluate its territories for the harsher impacts of extreme weather events. They use a different type of meteorologist each time they predict what Mother Nature has in store during severe weather.
Because PG&E has such a vast territory, its meteorologists have to look at the very big picture. They break that down into tiny little squares, to know what's going in every place within that system.
The goal: know where growing grasses, brush and bushes might allow fire to burn up into tree canopies, setting off fierce wildland"The precipitation we have seen, the snowpack, according to all the national agencies, delay the start or, at least, tamp down the start of fire season a good deal," said PG&E meteorologist Duffy, part of the team that uses every higher technology and historical data to determine where power crews need to be pre-positioned for outages and make repairs...
In winter predicting how the weight of snow and freezing snow, at low altitudes will impact power lines, as well as the intrusive close-by vegetation. In spring, a quick melting snowpack melt will affect downstream towns.
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