Sentences with phrase «lengthening wildfire season»

Rising temperatures have contributed to lengthening wildfire season by 105 days since 1970 and an uptick in large wildfires.

«Rising temperatures are drying out the landscape, amplifying drought conditions, and lengthening the wildfire season in California.»

Climate change is «playing an increasing role in the increasing frequency of some types of extreme weather that lead to billion - dollar disasters, most notably the rise in vulnerability to drought, lengthening wildfire seasons and the potential for extremely heavy rainfall and inland flooding,» Smith said.

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Ecologist and fire scientist Matt Jolly and his colleagues say the average duration of annual wildfire seasons lengthened almost 20 percent between 1979 and 2013, and the amount of land vulnerable to burning almost doubled.

In summary, we have shown that combined surface weather changes over the last three and a half decades have promoted global wildfire weather season lengthening.

Anthony Westerling of Scripps Institution and colleagues found that the average wildfire season in the western United States has lengthened by 78 days from the period 1970 — 86 to 1987 — 2003 as temperatures increased an average 1.6 degrees Fahrenheit.

Higher spring and summer temperatures, along with an earlier spring melt, are also the primary factors driving the increasing frequency of large wildfires and lengthening the fire season in the western U.S. over recent decades.13 The record - breaking fires this year in the Southwest and Rocky Mountain Region are consistent with these trends.