Charlie Liles

Charlie Liles
los severe shaping similar worse
It's shaping up to be similar to other years in which we've had some severe fires. This is worse than 2000. That's when we had Los Alamos.
carry creates easily fine fires fuels larger moving rapidly scenario
It really creates a scenario that you could easily have very rapidly moving fires in those fine fuels that carry into the larger fuels (trees).
above below expect normal storms summer until
We'll have some storms here and there, but we expect above normal temperatures, below normal precipitation right up until we get our summer thunderstorm season.
cooling pattern rapid seeing
What we're seeing is a rapid cooling over the Pacific. I don't really see this pattern changing.