Matt McGrath

Los Angeles and Southern California over the last two decades has been essentially a drought that's lasted for that period of time. And it has been influenced by climate change, drier, warmer weather, less rainfall.

But then over the last two years, they've had a lot of rain in two essentially wet seasons, which has seen a lot of growth of the type of things that burn, shrubs, trees, that sort of vegetation. But then since last summer, it's been very dry. They had a hot summer and they've had a very dry autumn and winter. In fact, they've had less than

But then over the last two years, they've had a lot of rain in two essentially wet seasons, which has seen a lot of growth of the type of things that burn, shrubs, trees, that sort of vegetation. But then since last summer, it's been very dry. They had a hot summer and they've had a very dry autumn and winter. In fact, they've had less than

0.16 of an inch of rain when they'd normally have more than four inches of rain so they've had very dry conditions over a longer period of time they've had dry and wet conditions that have caused this fuel to grow and those fingerprints of climate change are in the background here when you get these incredible winds when you get incredible dry conditions you get these type of configurations particularly in areas where there are lots of people unfortunately

0.16 of an inch of rain when they'd normally have more than four inches of rain so they've had very dry conditions over a longer period of time they've had dry and wet conditions that have caused this fuel to grow and those fingerprints of climate change are in the background here when you get these incredible winds when you get incredible dry conditions you get these type of configurations particularly in areas where there are lots of people unfortunately

Yeah, absolutely. It's the fire season question and the quote from Gavin Newsom, the governor of California, saying it's a fire year now, not a fire season. That very much reflects what's happening with the science, where scientists talk about fire weather days. These are the days on which the conditions are likely to help fires.

Yeah, absolutely. It's the fire season question and the quote from Gavin Newsom, the governor of California, saying it's a fire year now, not a fire season. That very much reflects what's happening with the science, where scientists talk about fire weather days. These are the days on which the conditions are likely to help fires.

So low humidity, winds, dryness, that sort of thing is very, very powerful. So we've seen those increase, we've seen the fire seasons lengthen, and now we're talking about in California perhaps the year-round fire season. But it's not just California. These are reflected in many different parts of the world as well.

So low humidity, winds, dryness, that sort of thing is very, very powerful. So we've seen those increase, we've seen the fire seasons lengthen, and now we're talking about in California perhaps the year-round fire season. But it's not just California. These are reflected in many different parts of the world as well.