California's largest wildfire explodes as hot weather threatens new blazes

[Omaha Steve]

Source: The Guardian

Tuesday’s strong winds stoked Dixie fire, which grew to over 395 sq miles across Plumas and Butte counties

California’s largest wildfire exploded again after burning for nearly three weeks in remote mountains, with officials warning that hot, dry weather threatened to further stoke the flames.

Officials warned that the high temperatures increase the risk of new fires across much of the state. “I think we definitely have a few hard days ahead of us,” said Shannon Prather with the US Forest Service.

Strong winds on Tuesday stoked the Dixie fire, which grew to over 395 sq miles (1,024 sq km) across Plumas and Butte counties. The blaze jumped perimeter lines in a few spots, prompting additional evacuation orders for about 15,000 people, fire officials said.

Heat from the flames also created a pyrocumulus cloud, a massive column of smoke that rose 30,000ft (10,000 yards) in the air, Mike Wink, a state fire operations section chief said.


Read more: https://amp.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/aug/04/california-west-coast-wildfires-weather

[ffr]

1. It's hard to think positively about our climate future in times like these

Makes you wonder if Mother Nature isn't showing us what 419 PPM CO2 looks like, being that at no time in Earth's history have humans been present when it was that high.

[TomCADem]

2. The Leading Republican To Replace The Governor...

… in the special recall election believes that climate change is BS. Unlike Schwarzenegger, the current crop of CA Republicans are all in the Kevin McCarthy/Devin Nunes mold of extremist Republicans.

[SunSeeker]

3. Horrific. The area burning is beautiful pine forest.