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    It's not windy, but wildfires are still spreading in California

    LOS ANGELES -- If you live near the coast, wildfire season starts with Southern California's notorious Santa Ana winds, which usually arrive in the fall. But inland, the fire season is already well underway. It's as if there are two separate fire seasons, said David Gomberg, a forecaster and fire weather program manager with the National Weather Service in Oxnard. His forecast office has ...
    by Paul Duginski, Los Angeles Times Aug 01, 2023 4 minutes
    A pyrocumulus cloud from the Station fire looms over downtown Los Angeles in August 2009.

    LOS ANGELES -- If you live near the coast, wildfire season starts with Southern California's notorious Santa Ana winds, which usually arrive in the fall.

    But inland, the fire season is already well underway.

    It's as if there are two separate fire seasons, said David Gomberg, a forecaster and fire weather program manager with the National Weather Service in Oxnard. His forecast office has warned for more than a week of the potential for fires that can explode into monsters, sending smoke plumes thousands of feet into the sky. And they do it without any significant winds, such as a

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