Hot Summer Promises More Blazes This Wildfire Season

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🗓️ 24 June 2024

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Meteorologists are predicting this summer will be one of the hottest on record, and they’re warning we’re likely in for a big wildfire season. Heavy rains in recent years enabled a couple of mild years of fire. But this year’s heat and drier conditions are already fueling blazes. So far, major fires have forced evacuations and singed homes in Sonoma County and Southern California. We’ll talk about the weather, what we can expect the rest of the year and what you can do to prepare for an active fire season. Guests: Brian Garcia, warning coordination meteorologist, National Weather Service SF Bay Area/Monterey Isaac Sanchez, deputy chief of communications, Cal Fire Daniel Swain, climate scientist, Institute of the Environment and Sustainability at UCLA Danielle Venton, science reporter, KQED News Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Support for KQWED Podcasts comes from Landmark College, holding their annual Summer Institute for educators from June 24 through 26th.
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0:30.1	From KQUD in San Francisco, I'm Alexis Madrigal.
0:47.0	June can be a gloomy, cold month in San Francisco in the inner bay.
0:51.8	Fog dominates the mornings and erases sunsets. But not this year. This
0:57.1	June it's been hot, like real summer. In our age of climate change, though, a spell of beautiful
1:03.6	weather is not only a good thing. If things keep up like this and we get a long hot summer,
1:09.8	are we in for a bad wildfire year?
1:11.8	We talk with climate, weather, and fire experts about that forecast.
1:16.3	It's all coming up next, right after this news. Welcome to Forum. I'm Alexis Madrigal.
1:35.3	When there's smoke in the air and you're checking three websites to know if it's okay to take your kids to the park,
1:41.3	or you're worried about your friends up in the hills, or you're
1:45.5	anxiously watching the horizon with a go bag by the door, you know it's wildfire season.
1:51.0	We had a string of very bad years reaching back to 2017, but these last couple summers, it
1:56.6	was better, and it was almost easy to imagine maybe those years were just a fluke. But we know that's
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