'It's really now more of a fire year.' The Colorado Fire burning between Carmel and Big Sur is giving a climate expert and CAL FIRE insight into what's to come.
burning between Carmel and Big Sur is giving a climate expert and CAL FIRE insight into what's to come.
"It's extremely unusual. We had an unusual combination of a long stretch of dry weather in January combined with an off-shore wind event that was pretty substantial," said Michael Wara, Director of the Climate and Policy program at Stanford University.Now, should we expect wildfires like this one in January?
"I think it's more likely. We are going to see more of them. In the old days this would've been an incredible unusual event. Maybe a once in a 50-year event, but these days is going to be more common and we are going to see it once every couple years," said Wara and added,"Californians need to be aware of the weather in a different way than they used to be. The risk is real now.
Instead of categorizing the summer months as the beginning of fire season, CAL FIRE is now preparing for a fire year."We are towards the end of January. 10-15 years ago we use to call it the California fire season where we might get fires say in July that would last through maybe September or October. So, it was just a few months. Now our fires are extending all the way through December and then into January. So it's not really accurate to call it a fire season.
As CAL FIRE units gear up for the rest of the year they are also noticing the California coastal regions are no longer off limits for wildfires.
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