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California Wildfires Triple Amid Drought After Record 2020 Fire Season On 5/19/21 at 7:34 AM EDT The flames that burned more than 1,300 acres in Los Angeles County over the weekend served as a reminder to California residents that wildfires have become a constant threat rather than a concern relegated to the officially recognized wildfire season of the late summer and fall months. By early May, the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (Cal Fire) reported at least 9,392 acres burned since the start of the year—more than three times the five-year average Cal Fire reported ove...

Yep, California Really is Getting Hotter and Drier Every ten years, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, or NOAA, averages climate data from the past three decades to get an idea of where the country is weather-wise. And the latest figures show that California's is ALREADY getting warmer and drier. Guests: Noah Diffenbaugh teaches Earth Systems Science at Stanford University   LAUSD Drops Extended School Year For much of the last year, Governor Gavin Newsom has been encouraging California schools to extend their school years — and add instructional days to their calendars �...

'New normal' for U.S. climate is officially hotter - and experts see trouble for California FacebookTwitterEmail The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration on Tuesday released its new "climate normals."NOAA The official “new normal” for the U.S. climate is warmer than ever before — and the changes are ominous for California, experts say. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration on Tuesday released its new climate averages, based on the 30-year period from 1991 to 2020. The averages, known as “climate normals,” are updated every 10 years, and they show most of the...

arrow Pedestrians cross a rain soaked Ninth Avenue at 57th Street during a severe thunderstorm in New York City, May 18th, 2018. Peter Foley/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock It’s tornado season, as this week’s hail and severe storm warnings around New York and New Jersey can attest. The Northeast isn’t known for these violent windstorms, a reputation typically reserved for the Midwest and the South. Six died during a tornado in Alabama last month. But the tri-state area is expected to face more severe thunderstorms and tornadoes as the climate warms. These unfamiliar weather events wi...

Earth Cooling Dramatically Winter storms are wreaking havoc in central and southern States. The climate news has turned catastrophic. People are angry; however, the federal government is too busy with its delusional psychosis over global warming and the COVID pandemic. People don’t realize how bad and multifaceted the situation is. We have full-scale blackouts in Mexico, millions of Americans still in the dark with no power and heat, and the biggest outage in American oil and gas history. A loss on this scale is already generating an energy crisis, meaning each and everyone one of us will...