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what's so special about California that it's always on fire? Why don't we have this kind of issue in say Maine, Michigan or North Carolina which all have lots
by csense 5y ago
what's so special about California that it's always on fire? Why don't we have this kind of issue in say Maine, Michigan or North Carolina which all have lots of forest?
- pkulak 5y agoCalifornia is prone to multi-decade droughts (see, East of Eden). I guess maybe that doesn't answer your question at all, but I'm sure lack of rain is mostly it, since bad forest management and global warming is everywhere.
- yongjik 5y agoFound an interesting page: https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/temp-and-precip/us-maps/3/201009?products[]=prcp-total https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/temp-and-precip/us-maps/3/201009?p... Every year shows the same pattern: you can see how California is tinder-dry at the end of each summer.
- prawn 5y agoGenerally not as wet. Camped in dozens of states across America and where it is trivial to start a fire with downed wood in the west, it is far more difficult in the east. Landscape is far more lush in the east.
- unearth3d 5y agoHumidity is a major control; low humidity helps fires initiation and spread.
- whalesalad 5y agoCalifornia is a desert. Those other states are not.