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Theres no so anything... my post was just a note on how the rain will affect the next fire season lol.
In California it rains in the winter. Vegetation grows, which then dries out in the summer to be potential fuel for fires. This is nothing new. The rain we have this winter is not going to create a worse potential fire season than the rain does every year.
In California it rains in the winter. Vegetation grows, which then dries out in the summer to be potential fuel for fires. This is nothing new. The rain we have this winter is not going to create a worse potential fire season than the rain does every year.
Exactly.
What CA hasn't done, however is develop fire-wise communities. I used to live there and was amazed at how much dry brush there is during the summer and how close they let trees be grown towards houses.
There are certain techniques to contain and prevent fires but the best technique is reduction of combustible material. That means that every homeowner has a responsibility to collect any twigs, branches, etc... and either mulch it up into great soil, burn it up in the smoking pit (we know how to do that in TX) or put it on the curb to go to clean green fill.
Every transmission line that goes across the state should have the land under it mowed and there should either be rocks or it should be irrigated. In the drier areas a semipermeable boundary that allows rain to absorb but doesn't allow weeds to grow through should be used. In wetter areas (northern CA or coastal areas), grey water should be used to irrigate the area and it should be used for softball, soccer, baseball, or football fields.
The topography of the area needs to be studied with the best scientists to determine the fire break areas and where to install protection mechanisms. These include fire watch towers, warning systems, and automatic greywater irrigation systems that can possibly put out grass fires.
Until CA does this, the fire season is going to get worse and worse.
Our community in Austin is one of the best fire-wise communities in the country, having won awards and I'm on the committee.
Now, a more vigorous plunge of the jet stream will dive out of the Gulf of Alaska toward the West Coast, then lumber across California and the Great Basin through Saturday.
Typically, a system diving southward into California wouldn't have a lot of moisture with it, but that's not necessarily the case this time
This may end up being a Goldilocks storm: not too warm and wet such as a classic atmospheric river event to trigger widespread flooding, yet not too cold and dry to produce minimal snow. Instead, it may be just right to put a sizable dent in the state's drought concerns.
This is great news and interesting article. Thanks for posting!
I was beginning to think that the rainy season in California was going to be lackluster after last year's record breaking (and almost dam breaking) floods. Last year most of the events were pineapple express warm type events which I read usually account for 80% of precip in California but this system should replenish a small snowpack so that's good.
The other good news is that the LA basin is getting in on the action. Its' supposed to rain 2 of the next 3 days there. In SF and Sacramento the news is even better. It's supposed to rain the next 7 of 9 days and some of it is predicted to be heavy. The Sierra should be getting heavy snows every day for the next week as the mountains wring out moisture.
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