[Proud90sKid]

California burns. It is nothing out of the ordinary besides the location in LA county. It is part of their natural ecology and climate. But yeah it sucks when natural disasters happen. Fire and water are particularly fierce elements of nature and can ruin everything you own. But there is nothing unusual about either the flame fanning Santa Ana winds or the California wildfires. Fire is a component of California's ecologic balance, so it isnt all bad from that perspective. However I sympathize with people who fear losing everything as I had that same fear when hurricane Milton was aimed right at Florida's west coast (live in a potential tidal surge zone).

While these events may become worse under global warming, I really dislike the politicalization of events like this. If there is a drought leading to fire, then many Californians scream global warming. If there is a winter with atmospheric rivers instead? Global warming. If they have one of their somewhat rare thunderstorms: global warming at it again. It sounds ridiculous on the other side of the continent. It seems like every year California weather gets politicalized due to either an abundance of rain/wintertime atmospheric river event or a deficit in rain. California has weather and natural disasters under its normal climate and it is ridiculous to politicize it.

At the end of the day California is prone to wildfires due to its natural dry summer Mediterranean climate that usually brings enough rain in winter though to produce forests and not be a desert. LA is in the subtropics but doesnt get any of the tropical summer rainfall that the southeast does. Add to that more vegetation than in desert climates and fanning effects from Santa Ana winds and you have a real threat of fires during winters that havent brought the rain.