Sentences with phrase «worst wildfire season»

The heat in Colorado is one ingredient that along with unusually dry conditions and strong winds is creating one of the worst wildfire seasons on record in the Rocky Mountain State.

In preparation for what is expected to be a bad wildfire season, San Diego Humane Society volunteers trained to rescue livestock during fires and other natural disasters Sunday.

Officials are expecting one of the worst wildfire seasons on record in California, with double the typical number of fires so far this year, and we're just at the beginning of the dry season.

Montana and British Columbia both also had some of their worst wildfire seasons ever.

Not exact matches

«Being literally in the middle of the worst wildfire of California history, literally in the middle of your season, and to come mere points away from winning a section championship is really unfathomable,» MaxPreps.com senior writer Mitch Stephens said.

British Columbia is facing its worst documented wildfire season in almost 60 years — Mika McKinnon went to the city of Kamloops to find out why

These questions sent us digging into a stack of 1,702 news articles published by local media in Colorado before, during and after the 2012 wildfire season — the state's worst in history.

California, Oregon and Washington have declared states of emergency to deal with the wildfires, as experts warn that this fire season, which runs from mid-May to mid-October, could be one of the worst on record.

Our ensemble fire weather season length metric captured important wildfire events throughout Eurasia such as the Indonesian fires of 1997 — 98 where peat fires, following an El Niño - induced drought, released carbon equivalent to 13 — 40 % of the global fossil fuel emissions from only 1.4 % of the global vegetated land area (Fig. 4, 1997 — 1998) 46 and the heatwave over Western Russia in 2010 (Fig. 4, 2010) that led to its worst fire season in recorded history and triggered extreme air pollution in Moscow51.

This comes on the heels of a 2015 wildfire season that was the worst on record in the U.S., with more than 10 million acres burned.

As if it weren't bad enough already, wildfire season is getting worse across the western United States.

They include soaring temperatures, declining late - season snowpack, northward - shifted winter storm tracks, increasing precipitation intensity, the worst drought since measurements began, steep declines in Colorado River reservoir storage, widespread vegetation mortality, and sharp increases in the frequency of large wildfires.

This comes on the heels of a 2015 wildfire season that was the worst on record in the U.S., with more than 10 million acres burned.

As the extraordinary hurricane and wildfire seasons in the United States underscored last year, more and worse extreme - weather events exact huge tolls in lost lives, disaster recovery costs, and economic losses.

And climate change will make matters worse: hotter temperatures and longer dry seasons in summer create conditions that can lead to more frequent wildfires.

Unfortunately this usually means lots of plant growth that dries out as the summer drought progresses and subsequently fuels a «bad» wildfire season.