Perfect Recipe for Extreme Wildfire: New Mexico’s Record-Breaking, Early Fire Season

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Fueled by abnormally dry, warm conditions and spread by strong winds, wildfires have burned more than 600,000 acres across New Mexico this spring — making it one of the worst fire years in the state’s recorded history. And there’s at least another month of peak fire risk ahead.

It’s an ominous sign for the rest of the American West, where the fire season tends to start later, but where conditions are similarly primed to burn.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/06/01/climate/new-mexico-wildfires.html
 
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2022/06/01/drought-california-water-restriction/
 
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