A person holding an umbrella watches the Los Angeles river during heavy rains in Los Angeles, California, on February 5, 2024. The Palisades Fire ravages a neighborhood amid high winds in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood of Los Angeles on January 7. But the Los Angeles firestorm is the latest example that there isn’t a fire season anymore in a warming world. “This time of year traditionally has not been fire season, but now we disabuse any notion that there is a season,” California Gov. Violent fires will remain possible until the extreme weather pendulum swings back to wet and California gets a soaking winter rain.

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