From Daniel Swain at the California Weather Blog:
“California experienced a cooler-than-average May in 2015–becoming the first month with below average temperatures in many months. However, those comfortably cool spring temperatures are now long gone, and June has turned out to be a very warm month across nearly the entire state. Several heat waves have brought very hot temperatures at times, and the warmth has been especially relentless across parts of the Central Valley, where the number of 100-degree days so far this calendar year already exceeds the total experienced during some recent full summers!
Impressive (and, in some cases, record-breaking) warmth has, in fact, expanded to encompass nearly the entire West Coast of North America, from Alaska to Northern Mexico. Large swaths of the Pacific Northwest and British Columbia are on track to experience their warmest (and, in some cases, driest) June (and combined May-June periods) on record. Fire season, despite getting off to an unexpectedly slow start in some regions, has roared to life in recent weeks–especially in California, where a number of large wildfires are currently spreading. ... ”
Continue reading at the California Weather Blog here: Prolonged period of West Coast heat and thunderstorms; wildfire risk soars
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