Mudslides and Fire All in One Week

There were mudslides in California and wildfires in Texas this past week -- both at the very same time. Thus, this is what we'll be seeing more of as climate change and perhaps El Nino take hold in the nation.

Climate extremes will become much more the norm. Already here in the Pacific Northwest we've had a warmer-than-normal fall season with higher levels of humidity that we would traditionally experience.  

Note that the mudslides in California followed a rain storm that dumped six inches of rain in one hour. That combined with gravity and slope caused torrential mud flows that closed large portions of Interstate 5, the major north-south connecting route that runs along the entire West Coast. People were lucky that it wasn't worse with entire hillsides giving way and experiencing an Oso mudslide-like event.  

Texas meanwhile is on fire again. This following its own incredible rain event that came earlier in the year. While most things are somewhat predictable, the future is not as predictable when it comes to the weather.