California’s devastating summer blazes are a bad omen for fall wildfire season

As if Northern California’s summer lightning fire siege isn’t devastating enough, experts say it is a troubling sign of what lies ahead during the state’s more traditional fall wildfire season.
Though California regularly sees summer wildfires, the state’s most deadly and destructive blazes have tended to hit in fall, when weather patterns shift and warm, dry winds from the high desert blow offshore across tinder-dry grasses, shrubs and trees that haven’t seen signi