It really creates a scenario that you could easily have very rapidly moving fires in those fine fuels that carry into the larger fuels (trees). |
It's shaping up to be similar to other years in which we've had some severe fires. This is worse than 2000. That's when we had Los Alamos. |
The state is primed, and, wow, it's like a loaded gun. Unless something unforeseen happens and we have a wet spring, things don't look good. I would love to see us wrong about all this. |
We'll have some storms here and there, but we expect above normal temperatures, below normal precipitation right up until we get our summer thunderstorm season. |
What we're seeing is a rapid cooling over the Pacific. I don't really see this pattern changing. |