Climate Change Effects California's Winds

As the climate becomes warmer researchers have discovered that the winds may become less frequent in California especially in fall and spring causing more winter fires. Changes in precipitation are also expected to occur resulting in California's wildfire season to shift from fall to winter with more intense fires later in the year. The air starts as cold, dry, and slow moving but as it becomes warm, dry, and fast-moving traveling at high speeds such as 100 miles an hour it pulling moisture out of dry shrubs and trees. This will cause even the slightest bit of burning vegetation to turn into a full-blown wildfire. Climate change has a huge effect on the wind patterns having detrimental outcomes on the ecosystem by causing full-blown wildfires in winter destroying more vegetation and something needs to be done before this occurs worldwide.


 https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/28/climate/california-fires-santa-anas.html?searchResultPosition=3

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  1. AnonymousNovember 18, 2019 at 8:26 PM

    I believe that we should find a solution to this problem before it causes a threat to the populations living in California. If we do not, these wildfires will continue to get out of hand and grow more rapidly.

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