Rachel Wisch

Multiple wildfires in both Northern and Southern California raged in October. Although these fires collectively burned through thousands of acres in different areas, one major factor driving them all is wind.

In 2017 the Tubbs Fire destroyed more than 5,600 structures, but a wildfire that occurred in the same area in 1964—the Hanley Fire—only destroyed about 100 homes and cabins.

Several factors influence hurricane activity in the Atlantic basin, but is the Saharan Air Layer one of them?