This hydroclimate whiplash, along with more extreme heat, is contributing to wildfires being larger and more destructive.

The fires that have engulfed Los Angeles cap the hottest decade in history. Each year in the last ten was record-warm, but 2024 was the warmest ever recorded. Last year, Earth was 1.6°C hotter than ...

Extreme heat dries out vegetation and the soil. Wildfires ignite more easily, spread faster and burn with greater intensity ...

Extreme Santa Ana winds whipped flames across Los Angeles County last week, with gusts catapulting embers across tinder-dry landscapes spreading devastating wildfires across the region. The Palisades ...

If you grew up in Southern California, you don’t need a weather person to know which way the Santa Ana winds blow. These dry ...

Epic events like the Southern California wildfires do not have a singular cause. While we don’t yet know the official causes ...

A FEMA Disaster Recovery Center for Angelenos impacted by the fires has also been set up at the UCLA Research Park (formerly ...

Today’s climate driven disasters are the result of more than a century of extracting and burning fossil fuels,' says Altadena-based climate lawyer Maya Golden-Krasner, deputy director of the Center fo ...

By Newsbase Los Angeles’ deadly wildfires have been sparked by a phenomenon known as “hydroclimate whiplash”, the LA Times reported on January 9. According to scientists, hydroclimate whiplash occurs ...

In early July 2021, the Oregon Bootleg wildfire was considered seasonally abnormal, taking place slightly earlier than a ...

These extreme 'whiplash' cycles can worsen wildfires, as we saw in the LA fires, which ended with a high human cost ...