Q&A: Experts discuss extreme weather's role in current and future wildfires
Friday, August 28, 2020 - 08:00
in Earth & Climate
Something unfamiliar to many Californians—an intense thunderstorm with widespread lightning strikes—spawned the all-too-familiar wildfires that have so far burned more than 1 million acres across the state's north. That contrast may foreshadow a future of increasingly frequent extreme weather that drives natural disasters.