Extreme weather, suburban sprawl fuel Los Angeles wildfires

The ongoing wildfires in California are unprecedented, in the sense that they are dramatic for this time of the year,

said Apostolos Voulgarakis, an atmospheric scientist at Imperial College London,

We see these fires spread when it is hot and dry and windy, and right now all of those conditions are in place in southern California,

Kristina Dahl, vice president for science at Climate Central, told AFP

The clearest climate signal for those three conditions is with the temperature,

she added

I think that we need to look at it from the perspective of global changes. And climate is just one global change. And certainly one of the other important global changes is population growth. And California has been growing at a phenomenal rate in the last 20 years,

Keeley said

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It's really just the perfect alignment of everything in the atmosphere to give you this pattern and strong wind,

said Tim Brown, director of the Western Regional Climate Center

The impact increases exponentially as wind speed increases,

said fire scientist Mike Flannigan of Thompson Rivers University in Canada

Now we talk about fire years.”

said David Acuña, a battalion chief for Cal Fire

Winter wildfires should be an oxymoron,

University of Colorado's Balch said