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Any other time, we’d be sure something was askew in the U.S. Record wildfires. A historic pandemic, especially deadly in the States. Great economic turmoil. Tropical storm after tropical storm. Quakes in unusual places.<\/p>\n
And the hotspot — literally — is California.<\/p>\n
From Associated Press:<\/em><\/p>\n A record amount of California is burning, spurred by a nearly 20-year mega-drought. To the north, parts of Oregon that don\u2019t usually catch fire are in flames.\u00a0Last month it hit 130 degrees in\u00a0Death Valley<\/a>, the hottest earth has been in nearly a century.\u00a0Phoenix keeps setting triple-digit heat records, while Colorado went through a\u00a0weather whiplash<\/a>\u00a0of 90-degree heat to snow this week. And elsewhere?\u00a0Powerful\u00a0Typhoon Haishen\u00a0lashed Japan and the Korean Peninsula this week. Siberia, famous for its icy climate,\u00a0hit 100 degrees<\/a>\u00a0earlier this year, accompanied by wildfires. Before that Australia and the Amazon were in flames.\u00a0Amid all that, Iowa\u2019s multi-billion dollar\u00a0derecho \u2014<\/a>\u00a0bizarre straight-line winds that got as powerful as a major hurricane \u2014 barely went noticed.<\/p>\n Freak natural disasters \u2014 most with what scientists say likely have some kind of climate change connection \u2014 seem to be everywhere in the crazy year 2020. But experts say we\u2019ll probably look back and say those were the good old days, when disasters weren\u2019t so wild.<\/p>\n Any other time, we’d be sure something was askew in the U.S. Record wildfires. A historic pandemic, especially deadly in.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-39907","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-commentary","7":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39907\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![](\"https:\/\/storage.googleapis.com\/afs-prod\/media\/511c19892b764141bd484e9ff5d7f49a\/800.jpeg\")
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