KQED KQED Newsroom August 20, 2016
More frequent skin tense. Joining me to explain why is scott stevens, professor of fire science at uc berkeley, welcome. So far this year weve been hundreds of square miles of acreage burned in wildfires in california. How does this compare to previous years . Southern california and Central California are ahead. I think weve had a real dry period in southern california. El nino year, usually that means 150 precipitation in southern cal, this year they got about 75 . Very dry. They really are ahead, they have really dry conditions. North of the golden gate we havent had that many fires. As you...