Field Journal

“Despite the precipitation and snow pack, even this wet and chilly winter is abnormally warm, and we can expect increasingly strong oscillations between dry and rainy seasons moving forward due to climate change. Further, a study released this week “suggests that wet winters, like the current one, no longer promise relief from severe wildfires the following summer.”

The Woolsey Fire was an unstoppable fire that stretched even the best fire departments in the world thin.