• @[email protected]
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    23 hours ago

    I’ll never understand why people continue to live and stay in disaster prone areas. You couldn’t pay me to live in California.

  • @CommissarVulpin
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    1216 hours ago

    Fires in January?

    What an amazing year 2025 is turning out to be.

    • @taiyang
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      215 hours ago

      Actually it’s a dry season here, so more likely than you’d think. LA isn’t exactly known for its rain, so instead we just get dryness in winter (unless we’re lucky).

      • sp3ctr4l
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        4 hours ago

        The wildfire season around LA is normally May/June to October.

        https://wfca.com/wildfire-articles/california-fire-season-in-depth-guide/

        It is not actually currently a ‘dry season’.

        It is actually right now, in January, the ‘wet season’.

        https://www.usclimatedata.com/climate/los-angeles/california/united-states/usca1339

        What’s gone wrong is that there has been about a decade of persistent general drought, there’s been a near complete lack of rainfall in the current wet season, and the Santa Anna winds have been particularly strong.

        … It is absolutely not the dry season in LA right now, by historical standards.

        The climate has rather abruptly and rapidly changed, such that wildfire season is now effectively year round.

        • @taiyang
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          12 hours ago

          Oh right, I think I’m think Santa Ana winds = dryness and heat, but now that I think of it thats usually October/November. We’ve had dry Januraries before, but I’m used to it only raining maybe 7-14 days a year, usually at that peak you show.

          Suffice to say if you live in climate changed LA, 3/4 of the year is dry.

  • @ch00f
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    2221 hours ago

    I’ve tried to shy away from the news since the election. This is my first hearing of these fires. Thank you.

  • @robocall
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    921 hours ago

    Don’t worry. I saw Steve Guttenberg on TV. He is on it.