OMG: 🔥FLORIDA EVERGLADES ON FIRE!🔥 Take a look at this footage caught by Florida Storm Chaser Chase showing the wildfi

[riversedge]

I did not know anything about this fire til just now. Maybe I can find a story.

🔥FLORIDA EVERGLADES ON FIRE!🔥
Take a look at this footage caught by Florida Storm Chaser Chase showing the wildfires burning through Big Cypress National Preserve last night!

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[PatSeg]

1. Whoa, that is one place

I wouldn't picture wild fires.

[Deuxcents]

2. This happens ever year but this time is different with a sever drought

So everything is extra dry. It will definitely help with regrowth

[GoCubsGo]

5. Yup, fires are a normal occurrence in the Everglades.

As well as a number of other ecosystems in the region. Some species, like longleaf pines depend on fires. Their seeds don't germinate without a burn.

[buzzycrumbhunger]

3. Yikes!

We got warnings about dry season and a big chance of fires, followed by near-freezing temps. Glad I’m a couple hours north of the Everglades…

[greatauntoftriplets]

4. I spent some time in the Everglades years and years ago.

Has it been unusually dry there this winter? Or are developers draining too much of the area? Never thought it'd be subject to wildfires. We were staying in a hotel in the 10,000 Islands, and there was lots of water there at the time. It was sort of a joke, because a few years earlier I had vacationed in the Thousand Islands of Ontario.

[Deuxcents]

6. It's exceptionally dry. Our rainy season was dryer than usual

And our rain deficit is in double digits. We’ve had a couple of hard freezes and temps in the 30’s for a few nights so it’s dry. The coldest winter in a very long time so far

[greatauntoftriplets]

7. Thanks for the explanation.

That's a shame. The Everglades are beautiful.

[snowybirdie]

8. Goid thing

Wind is blowing it away from Alligator Alcatraz tonight. Wind shift is tomorrow. Those poor souls

[regnaD kciN]

10. Pretty sure it's been shut down for months...

[Deuxcents]

13. I don't think so..even with all kinds of lawsuits, i think it's still operating

[snowybirdie]

17. Nope

Renewed allegations of inhumane treatment at ‘Alligator Alcatraz' detention center
In the past, the state has denied claims of poor conditions at the facility.
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[Emile]

11. Wondering how much wildlife will die.

[Xolodno]

12. Pfffft! Amatuers! Come to California, we'll show you wildfires!

Just in case....

[PCB66]

14. We are having a drought in Florida

This year is an el Nino neutral weather cycle.

That means the west to east wind stream are farther north this year.

That is what causing all the massive snow storm up north but is preventing the fronts from moving south bringing rain to Florida. That is what's causing the drought and associated wildfires.

Bad because of the drought but good because it prevented hurricanes last season.

Typical cyclical weather for Florida.

[Renew Deal]

15. Florida is largely in an extreme drought

https://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/CurrentMap/StateDroughtMonitor.aspx?Southeast

[Grim Chieftain]

16. Trump will say it was deliberately set by Dems

To distract from his speech