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New fires ignite in Southern California Two new fires ignited Monday morning in Southern California, fire officials said. Ventura County Fire Chief Mark Lorenzen said at a press conference that the fires started within minutes of each other. The larger of the two fires, the "Peak Fire...
Although New York state is inextricably linked with New York City in many people’s minds, the state has a wide range of geographic and climatic conditions. During at least a part of the last Ice Age, most of New York was covered by glaciers; the only exceptions were southern Long Island...
Canada is dealing with the most intense wildfire season on record as hundreds of fires still rage across the country. There are 883 wildfires active across the country as of Thursday, according to the Canadian Interagency Forest Fire Centre. Of those, 544 are burning out of control, while 135...
MapReduce in F# - Parsing Log Files with F#, MapReduce and Microsoft Azure By Noah Gift | April 2011 As a longtime Python programmer, I was intrigued by an interview with Don Syme, architect of the F# language. In the interview, Don mentione...
There are hurricanes along the Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico coasts, flooding, mud slides in California, and frequent tornadoes in the midwest and southeast. Varied other occurrences include volcanoes, and earthquake activity around the Pacific Basin, tsunamis, and forest fires in the western portion ...
filled with exquisite homes, theaters,restaurants, and fine hotels after the height of the Gold Rush. In 1908, an earthquake measuring 8.3 on the Richter Scale set off a number of large fires that destroyed most of the city, but residents rebuilt by the 1920's. During the 1960s, the ...
ProPublicamaps the change in California’s fire seasons. “As California continues battling its worst wildfire season on record,new research showsthat fall fire weather days—days with high temperatures, low humidity and high wind speeds—will double in parts of the state by the end of the centu...
California, which has long had hazard maps, passed a new law in 2018 requiring homeowners in high-risk areas to pass a defensible space inspection before buying or selling the property. Meanwhile, the population of the U.S. West in the so-called wildland-urban interface — the boundary w...
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