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Swain to discuss rain in fire zone 3pm Friday, Jan. 24
Light rain is expected to dampen Southern California this weekend, easing fire conditions but also raising landslide risks in burn areas. It won't end local fire risk. The drizzle is “enough to tamp down but not end fire season,” says Daniel Swain, UC ANR climate scientist.
Join Swain for a live briefing this afternoon with updates on new fires in greater Los Angeles, the rain and snow to come, and the fire outlook in February:
YouTube Office Hours with Daniel Swain
Friday, Jan. 24, 3 p.m. Pacific/6 p.m. Eastern
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5KU6OP8AZO8
Join live to ask questions in the chat or watch the recording anytime at that same link. As always, these sessions are on-the-record, and media are welcome to quote from or air Swain's comments.
From Swain's Jan. 22 Office Hours:
More fire weather and risk after the rain: “I think this [rainy] period will very likely be a period of greatly reduced fire risk. Once we get back to the end of the first week in February, though, unless it rains again, we're going to be at the mercy of the winds, because all it will take is one Santa Ana event to evaporate all of this water, and we'll be right back to where we started.”
Landslide risk: “Isolated areas, particularly in the mountains, could see very intense downpours of a half an inch or an inch of rain in an hour. If that happens over a recent wildfire burn area, particularly on the Eaton or Palisades fires – or even the Line or Bridge fires from earlier in the year in September – there is going to be a risk of significant and potentially deadly debris flows. … There's very little risk from this event if you're not in or near a wildfire burn area, so this will be a net beneficial rain for 95% of people, but it could be quite dangerous for the 5% of people who live in or near those fire zones susceptible to debris flows. … If you are evacuated, there may be new evacuation orders or warnings for debris flow risk this weekend.”
UC Davis Biodiversity Museum Day: What's Good to Know
The 14th annual UC Davis Biodiversity Museum Day, a "Super Science Day" scheduled Saturday,...
Tabatha Yang, education and outreach coordinator for the Bohart Museum of Entomology, shows butterfly specimens to visiting students. She chairs the UC Davis Biodiversity Day, also known as "Super Science Day." (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Faces in the Crowd at the Bohart Museum Open House
They discovered, explored, and connected. They met scientists, asked questions, and gained new...
Bohart Museum associate and UC Davis entomology major Kaitai Liu delights in showing insects from the petting zoo to the crowd. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Mike Pitcairn, retired senior environmental scientist-supervisor, California Department of Food and Agriculture, assists with the microscope activity. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Open house guest April Heard (foreground) of Escalon watches as her daughter Daphne Heard, 10, touches a stick insect. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A crowd gathers around UC Davis doctoral student and entomologist Carla-Cristina “CC” Edwards of the lab of medical entomologist-geneticist Geoffrey Attardo. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Entomologist Jeff Smith, curator of the Bohart Museum's Lepidoptera collection, talks to visitors. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Two retired teachers from Davis, Kathleen Gamper (left) and Joanne Andressen enjoying the Bohart Museum open house. Both are also accomplished artists. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Livi Watson, 11, of Davis wearing a favorite bug shirt to the Bohart Museum open house. She enjoys insect science, but is leaning toward a career in the veterinary field. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
February 12 Annual UCCE Strawberry Production Research Meeting Announcement
Hi folks, the 2025 UCCE Annual Strawberry Production Research meeting will take place this year February 12 at the Arts Building at the Santa Cruz County Fairground. Agenda in English and Spanish is attached below, we have a really great line up of speakers so this is an event that strawberry people do not want to miss.
I'm getting a huge assist from the California Strawberry Commission to pull this off, and it's much appreciated to get this help.
Continuing education hours have been arranged for, looking at 3 hours total, with 0.5 hours of those being for laws and regs.
Translation will be available for Spanish speakers, and which will be provided by Diego Celes of Transagro.
M.E.A. McNeil, The Bees, and The Bee Club
When you read the newly published novel, Bee Club, (Nervous Ghost Press) by M.E.A....
Worker bees cleaning queen bee cells. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Journalist M.E.A. McNeil interviewing "Bug Chef" David George Gordon at a UC Davis event on Nov. 1, 2014. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
