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user-inactivated  ·  2387 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: California Wine Country is burning

70MPH sustained winds, 20% or less humidity and no rain for 3-4 months. Everything is dry as tinder, infinite oxygen supply and the stuff gets so hot that the trees explode. Fires like this can move 20 miles a day. Laguna Hills, 1993 listen to the times and watch that sucker move. This was about 20 miles from where I was living at the time. It blew right over I-5 and went right through the houses along the hills.