Horrific situation in Northern California... The #DixieFire has ballooned into California's 6th largest fire on record. 6 of the state's 7 biggest fires on record have occurred since last August! wapo.st/3lxXEtw by @HazardWriter (1/x)
Fire conditions remain elevated to critical today in northern California and the interior Pacific Northwest. Red flag warnings up all over due to dry, windy weather and possible dry lightning. (2/x) 
Drought and heat, intensified by climate change, are making these fires worse. In addition to the widespread extreme to exceptional drought, look how hot it was in June-July across the West. (3/x)
Here's the post sunrise view of some of the smoke plumes in northern California. Just devastating. (4/x)
In addition to worsening fires, the drought has depleted water levels on California's Lake Oroville - the state's 2nd largest reservoir - to its lowest level on record. Watch this animation.
https://twitter.com/ai6yrham/status/1422923278113382405(5/x)
Some good news in West... the critical fire danger will ease Friday and Seattle and Portland might end 50-day rainless streaks. Also, recent abundant monsoon rains have improved drought conditions in intermountain West. Shown here percent of normal rain last 30 days. (6/x)
Rains in interior West not all good...have produced flash floods and, recently, mudslides in Colorado between Grand Junction and Denver, closing a section of Interstate 70. We'll give Colo. Senator Hickenlooper last word in this thread:
https://twitter.com/SenatorHick/status/1422648987954319361(7/7)
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