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mnhtnbb

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13. Exactly.

Fri Jan 10, 2025, 03:56 PM

Jan 10

They have been part of the ecosystem for a damn long time, but NOT with wind speeds of 100 mph nor usually in January.

From my perspective, this episode -- and the one cited in 2011-- are examples of climate change intensifying normal extreme weather events. Just like we've seen with hurricanes in the last decade or so, the intensity of this Santa Ana winds event has been greater than normal and also come at at an unusual time of year.

My dad was born in L. A. in 1910. My mom grew up in the San Joaquin Valley on a citrus ranch. Her father worked the oil rigs from Pennsylvania to Kansas to Oklahoma to California.

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