A four-and-a-half-year-old article that puts them into perspective.
It’s always sadly amusing when you see a headline about “hottest|dryest|whateverist X in recorded history” when we haven’t been keeping records very long, and people rely on their own living memory to judge current events, when a few decades is meaningless in the geological context of climate.
From Wikipedia: “The rainy season of 2016–2017 was Northern California’s wettest winter in over 100 years.”
These were the same rains and floods that damaged the Lake Oroville Dam less than 20 miles south of Paradise and the Camp Fire (the lake itself is as close as 5 miles away).
And I’ll just leave this here.
I think this is entertaining, and a fit for this blog:
https://www.dailywire.com/news/38520/gov-jerry-brown-quietly-admits-trump-was-right-emily-zanotti
Trump? Right? Inconceivable!
But if only Trump had worded his tweet differently, the media wouldn’t have savaged him. /s
Here is a useful graph to help put things in perspective. What if it turned out the recent uptick in wildfires wasn’t unprecedented due to AGW apocalypse?
https://mobile.twitter.com/wattsupwiththat/status/1063475651183697920