Coffey Park area of Santa Rosa, with houses that were burned to their foundation by a fast spreading wildfire fanned by strong winds three days earlier. The fires are thought to have been caused by +50mph winds that pushed power lines into trees. Many years of severe drought left many trees dead, and the wet winter the previous year created an abundance of grass for fueling the fire.
The winds are caused by heat and high pressure in Nevada and the Great Basin, and the wind pours over the mountains at night, accelerating and getting drier as it descends.
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- ©2017 George Steinmetz
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