Weather

Axios - The wildfires roaring through Southern California this week may be a preview of the West's future, Axios extreme-weather expert Andrew Freedman writes. Climate change, population growth and land management practices are combining to create dangerous and damaging blazes.  Where it stands: The three large fires burning right now near L.A. and Orange County have scorched roughly 100,000 acres of land. The largest of the three is only 3% contained, according to Cal Fire. More than 30,000 California residents have had to evacuate, and 100,000 more are under evacuation warnings.

Extreme fire weather conditions like those California has experienced this year are becoming more common and more severe because of climate change, and the resulting fires are sometimes harder to fight. ... "The public largely believes we can extinguish all the fires all the time, and this is not true," said Mike Flannigan, a wildfire expert at Thompson Rivers University. More