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.

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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