Before your SUV ruined the climate, a California fire destroyed one home every 11 seconds.
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Unprecedented. /nosarc
Sad.
Southern California has a hot & dry high-sun season and a moist low sun season, often called a Mediterranean Climate; Köppen Climate Classification System Csb for the coast and Csa for inland. The nearby mountains and canyons influence air flow (winds) as described in this:
The Santa Ana Winds in Historical Photos and Literature
http://www.kcet.org/updaily/socal_focus/history/la-as-subject/santa-ana-winds-history.html
Near the bottom are photos from 1948, ’53, & ’61. The winds and fire have
been noted in stories of the native people before arrival of Europeans. The air warms by compression as it rushes downslope. This will happen regardless of the temperature over the source regions. A quote from the Wikipedia page: “It is often said that the air is heated and dried as it passes through the Mojave and Sonoran deserts, but according to meteorologists this is a popular misconception. The Santa Ana winds usually form during autumn and early spring when the surface air in the elevated regions of the Great Basin and Mojave Desert (the “high desert”) becomes cool or even cold (although they may form at virtually any time of year).”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Ana_winds#Meteorology
Add to the previous
Reading for historic perspective:
http://articles.latimes.com/2008/oct/15/opinion/oe-rutten15
“It’s interesting to recall that our worst single fire preceded urbanization. During the last week of September, the Great Fire of 1889 burned more than 300,000 acres in northern San Diego County and southern Orange County, killing thousands of sheep and destroying the unharvested barley crop.”
No record high temps since the invention of the SUV.
Highest Recorded Temperatures
Below is a table of the highest recorded temperatures for each continent. Death Valley, Calif., tops the list, hitting a stifling 134 degrees in 1913.
Place
Date
Degrees
Fahrenheit
Degrees
Celsius
North America
Furnace Creek Ranch (Death Valley), Calif., USA
July 10, 1913
134.0
56.7
Asia
Tirat Tsvi, Israel
June 21, 1942
129.2
54.0
Africa1
Kebili, Tunisia
July 7, 1931
131.0
55.0
Australia
Oodnadatta, South Australia
Jan. 2, 1960
123.0
50.7
Europe
Athens, Greece (and Elefsina, Greece)
July 10, 1977
118.4
48.0
South America
Rivadavia, Argentina
Dec. 11, 1905
120.0
48.9
Oceania
Tuguegarao, Philippines
April 20, 1912
108.0
42.2
Antarctica
Vanda Station, Scott Coast
Jan. 5, 1974
59.0
15.0
Read more: Highest Recorded Temperatures | Infoplease.com http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0001375.html#ixzz31uIHrtFx
It’s readable – just.
Wordpress has removed your formating but if you put <blockquote> before your text and then … </blockquote> after the formating is ususally retained.
See – http://wattsupwiththat.com/test-2/ for formatting examples and a test page (would be nice to have at this site but you can’t have it all I suppose).
Just another thing, don’t try Googling for help on WordPress formating. It is an errand that is less than worthless. If you do you will get 1,000,000 hits for totally irrelavent sites.
I’ve tried to find it on WordPress’s main site and had to give up. Obviously WordPress want to keep this sort of information a secret from mere commenters on WP sites.
So site owners have had to get used to the fact that some of us are not good typists or good at remembering the arcane rules of formating. It’s a painful lesson but when you break the rules of formating, you often will be chastised and ridiculed for just not knowing or forgetting.
Just smile and carry on.
Lets test the theory and see if it works –
Not quite.
My husband lost everything he owned in that fire except for his gas-guzzling 1971 Maverick. They don’t make them like they used to.
Everything else on the street was burned to ashes. The Maverick was parked on the curbed, unscathed, except for singed tires.