For Western Wildfires, the Immediate Past Is Prologue

With the western United States in the midst of an unprecedented period of widespread megadrought and wildfire activity that exceeds the severity of any other period observed in available millennia-long paleorecords, researchers are examining whether weather in the winter and spring can reliably predict the severity of the fire season the following summer.

For Western Wildfires, the Immediate Past Is Prologue

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