Big wildfires like Colorado's thrive in dry air, low humidity, and high winds; climate change is going to make those conditions more frequent over the next century, according to Mother Jones. Low levels of winter snow and spring rains in the Western states have further acerbated this year's fire season. The role of Gulf jet stream is added too, which earlier this year failed to deliver moist air from the Gulf of Mexico northward like it normally does, denying much of the continental US of much-needed rains. Finally droughts, beetle out brakes and settlements within the high risk areas further complicate the fire problem in the area.
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