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Southern California Fries in Heat Wave
2016-06-23 00:47:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: Numerous places across Los Angeles and neighboring counties passed 100 degrees well before noon Monday. Southern California is in the grip of a severe heat wave that has sent temperatures surging. Numerous places across Los Angeles and neighboring counties passed 100 degrees well before noon Monday. The National Weather Service says the thermometer hit 121 degrees in Palm Springs by 1 p.m. Forecasters expect Monday to be the peak of the heat wave, with highs in the lower deserts to be near 120...
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Dead Trees Adding to California Firefighters Battle
2016-06-23 00:28:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Central: With drought and climate change conspiring to push California's summer wildfire season into premature overdrive, the state's lead wildfire agency has acquired a multimillion dollar arsenal to help it cope with unprecedented numbers of dying trees. California recently bought $6 million worth of chippers, mobile sawmills, portable incinerators and other equipment to help its firefighters remove some of the nearly 30 million trees that now stand dead across the state, killed by drought and insects....
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California OTS observational study finds driver cell phone use up despite dangers
2016-06-22 23:56:02| Green Car Congress
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66 million dead trees in California could fuel 'catastrophic' wildfires, officials say
2016-06-22 23:50:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The number of trees in Californias Sierra Nevada forests killed by drought, a bark beetle epidemic and warmer temperatures has dramatically increased since last year, raising fears that they will fuel catastrophic wildfires and endanger peoples lives, officials said on Wednesday. Since 2010, an estimated 66 million trees have died in a six-county region of the central and southern Sierra hardest hit by the epidemic, the US Forest Service said. Officials flying over the region captured images...
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The California drought aint over til its over (and its not over)
2016-06-22 22:35:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: Bad news, Californians: Even though some state officials have declared the drought over, you`re in for three more years of below-average water levels, according to a new report from UCLA. The study found that despite El Nio pushing up precipitation across the state this winter, the effect of the drought that began in 2012 is so severe that the Sierra Nevada snowpack isn`t expected to recover until 2019. That`s assuming those mountains actually see snow in the next couple of years - a lot of it....
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