The early pandemic years overlapped with some of California’s worst wildfires on record, creating haunting, orange-tinted skies and wide swaths of burned landscape. Some of the impacts of these fires are well known, including drastic declines in air quality, and now a new study shows how these wildfires combined with midwinter drought conditions to accelerate snowmelt.
Click here for original story, Wildfires are increasingly burning California’s snowy landscapes, colliding with winter droughts to shrink snowpack
Source: Phys.org