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Snow drought helped set the stage for deadly California avalanche, leading to unstable conditions
Read full article: Snow drought helped set the stage for deadly California avalanche, leading to unstable conditionsExperts say a weekslong “snow drought” in Norther California's Sierra Nevada helped set the stage for Tuesday's deadly avalanche, after several feet of new snow fell on an earlier layer that had hardened.
A look at megafires as an Oregon wildfire approaches the 100,000-acre mark
Read full article: A look at megafires as an Oregon wildfire approaches the 100,000-acre markA wildfire burning in a sparsely populated region of central Oregon has become the largest fire this year and is on the verge of surpassing 100,000 acres to become a megafire.
Study says climate change made conditions that fed California wildfires more likely, more intense
Read full article: Study says climate change made conditions that fed California wildfires more likely, more intenseA quick scientific study finds that human-caused climate change increased the likelihood and intensity of the hot, dry and windy conditions that fanned the flames of the recent devastating Southern California wildfires.