CNN Early Start With Christine Romans and Laura Jarrett December 31, 2021 10:10:00
Cnn meteorologist gene norman joins me now. what causes this kind of catastrophe so quickly? >> those pictures are just amazing when you think about all that we've been seeing over the past couple of hours. and there were three main factors here. we had winds that were speeding up as they came out of the rockies and down into the foothills, something we call wind amplification. also the area where the fires developed was ab normally dry and those winds were basically pumping the fire and pushing it. i've seen so many videos of the fire moving. i thought it was a time lapse. it was actually in ...
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