{"id":4484,"date":"2021-04-19T20:20:45","date_gmt":"2021-04-20T03:20:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/?p=4484"},"modified":"2021-04-19T20:20:45","modified_gmt":"2021-04-20T03:20:45","slug":"the-humble-shrub-thats-predicting-a-terrible-fire-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/2021\/04\/19\/the-humble-shrub-thats-predicting-a-terrible-fire-season\/","title":{"rendered":"The humble shrub that\u2019s predicting a terrible fire season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over at Ars-Technia, an interesting view on &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/science\/2021\/04\/the-humble-shrub-thats-predicting-a-terrible-fire-season\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Chamise is kind of a crystal ball for understanding how badly California might burn.<\/a> &#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>And nothing scares a fire weather scientist quite like a year with dehydrated chamise. If it\u2019s dry, then that\u2019s a good indicator that everything is dry. \u201cRight now, these are the lowest April 1 fuel moistures we\u2019ve ever had,\u201d Clements says. This is supposed to be the time of year when moisture levels are at their highest, thanks to recent autumn and winter rains. But California is withering in a drought. \u201cThe shocking thing in 2021 is that we don\u2019t have any new growth on chamise in our sample areas,\u201d Clements says. \u201cThese plants are stunted by the drought.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.arstechnica.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/shrub-2-1280x854.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over at Ars-Technia, an interesting view on &#8220;Chamise is kind of a crystal ball for understanding how badly California might burn. &#8221; And nothing scares a fire weather scientist quite like a year with dehydrated chamise. If it\u2019s dry, then that\u2019s a good indicator that everything is dry. \u201cRight now, these are the lowest April &#8230; <span class=\"more\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/2021\/04\/19\/the-humble-shrub-thats-predicting-a-terrible-fire-season\/\">[Read more&#8230;]<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3061,6,7,15,16,17],"tags":[325,3262,3265,3263,3261,3264],"class_list":{"0":"entry","1":"post","2":"publish","3":"author-sergneri","4":"post-4484","6":"format-standard","7":"category-climate-change","8":"category-environment","9":"category-ethical-and-green-living","10":"category-faits-divers","11":"category-science","12":"category-sea-stories","13":"category-thinking-about","14":"post_tag-california","15":"post_tag-chamise","16":"post_tag-ecosystem","17":"post_tag-fire-scientists","18":"post_tag-fire-season","19":"post_tag-flammable-vegetation"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4484"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4484\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4487,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4484\/revisions\/4487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}