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. ⬇️🧵
NEW – How wildfires and storms drove insurance losses in 2025 – in three charts | @orladwyer.carbonbrief.org Ho Woo Nam
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🚨🚨🚨 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.🔥🔥🔥
Dr. Aaron Thierry
Carbon Brief
Think a warmer, drier spring means no rx fire (like I did?) Think again! www.hcn.org/articles/why...
The western U.S., limping away from one of the driest winters on record, is primed for wildfires.
insideclimatenews.org/news/2703202...
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/
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...
To complement this @theguardian.com article, please see our new (very timely) paper on snow-wildfire dynamics 🔥
Land managers across the West are finding pockets of cool, wet conditions, allowing them to safely reduce future fire risk.
www.hcn.org
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.
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 ...
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...
Experts say brutal temperatures in west threaten to melt sparse snowpack – and warn hot, dry conditions here to stay
