There is an "increase in this hydro-climate whiplash" and it creates an ideal scenario for worsening wildfires by growing vegetation then burning it, says Daniel Swain, a climate scientist at UCLA.

A series of savage lurches from intensely dry to fiercely wet conditions helped fuel the horrific winter fires we're currently watching destroy parts of Los Angeles and surrounding wilderness.

Scientists are calling this flip-flopping between extremes of wet and dry ‘hydroclimate whiplash’. It describes intense periods of extreme but different weather, which lead to more devastating ...

Hydroclimate whiplash -- the rapid shift between wet and dry conditions -- likely contributed to the severity of the wildfires burning in Southern California, according to experts. In recent years, ...

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