Describe the climate and name the conditions that make many areas in California are suspectible to wild fire ?
The catastrophic fires that are sweeping Southern California are consistent with what climate change models have been predicting for years, experts say, and they may be just a prelude to many more such events in the future Coming more than a month before summer officially begins, Tuesday's fire underscored the growing threat facing the US state as climate change makes wildfires hotter, bigger and more frequent. The fire was fed by winds of up to 80 kilometres an hour, which sent glowing clouds of embers and thick blankets of smoke across the Pacific coast mountainsides and toward the densely populated town centre and the Pacific Ocean.The smoke was so thick that firefighters refrained from estimating the area that had been scorched. Helicopters and aircraft also were temporarily grounded
