El Niño Expected to Become One of Strongest on Record: UN’s Weather Agency November 17, 2015 By Tom Miles The El Niño weather pattern, a phenomenon associated with extreme droughts, storms and floods, is expected to strengthen before the...
Paper Fingers Climate Change for California Wildfires November 12, 2015 By Don Jergler There was a bit of hesitation from National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration scientist Stephanie C. Herring when she was asked...
Wildfires, and Now El Niño May Boost Californian’s Appetites for Surplus Lines November 3, 2015 By Don Jergler There’s little question that the drought and the recent wildfire season that it unleashed pushed more California homeowners into the...
Gains Made on Wyoming Wildfire That’s Destroyed Dozen-plus Structures October 14, 2015 Wyoming State Forester Bill Crapser blames unseasonably dry weather with temperatures in the 70s and 80s for a destructive wildfire...
California Insurance Commissioner Says More to Lose Fire Coverage October 1, 2015 California Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones says more people may be dropped from fire coverage and that residents of high risk...
Tropical Rains a Mixed Bag for Southwest Drought Relief September 24, 2015 By Brian K. Sullivan The tropical Pacific is sending a big dollop of rain into the U.S. Southwest. While it won’t help much in...
Bloomberg View: California’s Wildfires Didn’t Have to Be So Extreme September 21, 2015 Warming temperatures and a historic drought made Northern California’s Valley fire faster to spread and harder to fight. But the...
El Niño’s Dark Side Could Bring More Trouble to California September 18, 2015 A group of drought experts gathered in California this week, and it wasn’t long before the conversation turned to El...
19 Montana Counties Get Drought Disaster Declaration September 8, 2015 Four more Montana counties have been designated as primary natural disaster areas due to crop losses caused by drought. The...
Fighting Western U.S. Wildfires Costing More than $1B, Agriculture Chief Says September 1, 2015 U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said the federal government has spent more than $1 billion fighting this year’s deadly wildfires,...