Wildfires in California have burned three times more land than last year’s record-breaking season. Here’s why California is so vulnerable to wildfires ...
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01:10The fire tornado, or fire-nado, got spinning so fast,
01:15it got up to 140 mile-an-hour spinning.
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01:25Wind increases the supply of oxygen,
01:27which results in the fire burning more rapidly.
01:30It also removes the surface fuel moisture,
01:33which increases the drying of the fuel.
01:35Air pressure will push flames, sparks, firebrands into new fuel.
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01:45Hots, as I say often, are getting hotter.
01:47The dries are getting a lot drier.
01:49This morning with another severe heat wave in the West
01:52that is fueling destructive wildfires.
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02:01You're seeing that in record-breaking this,
02:03record-breaking that on a consistent basis.
02:06No longer is it anomalous.
02:08What is anomalous is having consistency
02:11in terms of normality with records.
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02:22This is not the new normal.
02:24This is the new abnormal.
02:26And this new abnormal will continue,
02:29certainly in the next 10, 20, 30 years.
02:34This is not the new normal.
02:36This is the new abnormal.
02:38And this new abnormal will continue,
02:41certainly in the next 10 to 15 to 20 years.
02:45And unfortunately, the best science is telling us
02:48that dryness, warmth, drought, all those things,
02:53they're going to intensify.