California Has Experienced Over 9,000 Wildfires This Year That Have Burned Over 1 Million Acres

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California wildfire. December 7th, 2017. image: NASA astronaut Randy Bresnik

California has had a brutal wildfire season and it’s not over yet.  

CALIFORNIA WILDFIRES in 2017:

  • 9,148 fires
  • 1,104,992 acres burned
  • 10,000 structures burned
  • 44 people killed
  • Over $1 billion of damage in the northern California fires alone

“Nearly 10,000 wildfires have burned over 1 million acres across California in 2017. To put it into perspective, more than 250,000 acres have burned just in southern California this December.” – NOAA Sacramento, CA today

image: noaa, today

Fingers crossed that these winds die down soon and that some precipitation comes into California.

The only problem is that California’s weather is not going to change any time soon…

High pressure is forecast to dominate California weather patterns for at least the next 7-days.

See 6-10 & 8-14 day outlooks for USA below.

Northern California fires 2017.  image: la times, october 2017

 

Southern California fires. image: CNN

PHOTOS:

California wildfire. December 7th, 2017. image: NASA astronaut Randy Bresnik
California wildfire. December 7th, 2017. image: NASA astronaut Randy Bresnik
Smoke from CA wildfires on December 5th, 2017. image: NASA’s Terra satellite
The European Space Agency’s Sentinel-2 satellite captured the data for this false-color image on Dec. 5th, 2017. image:
ESA

FORECAST:

6-10 day precipitation outlook for USA looking dry for CA. image: noaa, today
8-14 day precipitation outlook for USA looking dry for CA. image: noaa, today
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