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Climate change — particularly whiplash between two wet winters followed by a bone-dry, unusually hot spring, summer and fall — set the stage for Los Angeles' deadly and devastating fires, scientists say.
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Andrew Freedman, Axios, 12 Jan. 2025
But conditions are not normally bone-dry when the winds gust through the mountains of Southern California toward the Pacific coast.
—Denise Chow, NBC News, 9 Jan. 2025
The wind, fires and terrain filled with bone-dry vegetation from lack of rain in the area had formed a perfect storm for the disaster, Crowl said.
—Bill Hutchinson, ABC News, 9 Jan. 2025
On Wednesday, the roughly 1,500 firefighters assigned to the Eaton and Palisades blazes endured another challenging day of fire fueled by extreme winds, bone-dry brush and low humidity.
—Hannah Fry, Los Angeles Times, 8 Jan. 2025
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Andrew Freedman, Axios, 12 Jan. 2025
But conditions are not normally bone-dry when the winds gust through the mountains of Southern California toward the Pacific coast.
—Denise Chow, NBC News, 9 Jan. 2025
The wind, fires and terrain filled with bone-dry vegetation from lack of rain in the area had formed a perfect storm for the disaster, Crowl said.
—Bill Hutchinson, ABC News, 9 Jan. 2025
On Wednesday, the roughly 1,500 firefighters assigned to the Eaton and Palisades blazes endured another challenging day of fire fueled by extreme winds, bone-dry brush and low humidity.
—Hannah Fry, Los Angeles Times, 8 Jan. 2025
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“Bone-dry.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bone-dry. Accessed 21 Jan. 2025.
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