Research scientist | public land owner | facial hair enthusiast. Science interests: #Wildfire #Forests #GlobalChange
GrumpyUncleSean🔥
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NEW – How wildfires and storms drove insurance losses in 2025 – in three charts | @orladwyer.carbonbrief.org Ho Woo Nam
Read here: buff.ly/0XOfI5t
To complement this @theguardian.com article, please see our new (very timely) paper on snow-wildfire dynamics 🔥
🚨🚨🚨 March 2026 was the warmest March on record according to Prism climate data (1895-present). Previously, 2012 was far and away the warmest March, but this March beat 2012 by about half a degree Fahrenheit. This map shows how March temperatures ranked compared to all other Marches.🔥🔥🔥
1/ For those of us keeping an eye on systemic #climate risks, these aren’t difficult dots to connect.
I find it downright frightening. We need to brace for impacts and spring into preparedness now.
This thread outlines 6 key papers and what we can do in response. ⬇️🧵
The western U.S., limping away from one of the driest winters on record, is primed for wildfires.
insideclimatenews.org/news/2703202...
Think a warmer, drier spring means no rx fire (like I did?) Think again! www.hcn.org/articles/why...
GrumpyUncleSean🔥
Carbon Brief
Nice article from CBC featuring our recent research findings relating snowpack to fire severity. More important than how much area burns, is how it burns. 🔥🧪🌎 @grumpyunclesean.bsky.social
www.cbc.ca/news/science...
Climatologist49
Dr. Aaron Thierry
Snowpack decline kindles more severe fire in the western United States, Balik, Jared A, Coop, Jonathan D, Parks, Sean A
Recently released data show how drought, paltry Western snows and unseasonable heat, all exacerbated by climate change, could be priming the nation for a long wildfire season.
A brutal March heatwave in the West is accelerating snow drought, raising wildfire risk, and threatening water supplies. Some people talk about climate change as if it lives in the future. But it is posing ecological security risks now.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Mountains that normally see their peak snowpack in March are brown this year, thanks to a spring heat dome that baked western U.S. for much of the second half of the month. That's raising alarm bells ...
Lowest snowpack on record in the Southwest by longgg shot!
Only 36% of normal currently. Much lower in spots. Former record 57% in 2015 going back to 1987. Obviously this can have huge implications for water availability and fire season… 1/
Rod Schoonover-Rey
Jeff Berardelli
Experts say brutal temperatures in west threaten to melt sparse snowpack – and warn hot, dry conditions here to stay
