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Ray Ford: Big Sur Coastline at Risk Once Again (opens the original)
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For anyone who follows this coast, there is a familiar rhythm to the way disaster arrives in Big Sur. Highway 1, which snakes along this rugged coastline, reopened in full on Jan. 14, 2026 — a Wednesday around noon — after a 3-year, 12-day closure that ranked as the longest continuous shutdown in the road’s 90-year history. The shutdown began on Jan. 15, 2023, when a series of storms spawned by powerful atmospheric rivers tore loose Paul’s Slide, six miles south of Lucia. Before Caltrans could f
Ray Ford: Fire Weather - What is it? (opens the original)
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I’m sitting at home, working on a story relating to the conditions I’m experiencing outside my window. It’s just before noon and it is boiling hot. The fans are on in every room, but all this seems to be doing is pushing the hot air and barely cooling it. This week marked another period of red flag warning weather for parts of Santa Barbara County. The period of “extreme heat” lasted several days. You wouldn’t be wrong to worry about the next big wildfire occurring on days like this, but, surpri
Ray Ford: Remembering the 1977 Sycamore Fire (opens the original)
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On the evening of July 26, 1977, Santa Barbara’s foothills were primed to burn. A prolonged drought had gripped the region through the mid-1970s. Several days of oppressive heat had dried grass and brush to tinder. That Tuesday, the temperature reached 92 degrees, and the hot July weather showed no sign of easing. Fire agencies had been watching the conditions closely. In the preceding week, the News-Press had published warnings about the growing danger and ways to prevent fires. County, city an
Sundowner Winds & Wildfires: A Relationship That Slowly Is Being Understood (opens the original)
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The morning of Thursday, Nov. 13, 2008, seemed like so many others of our mid-autumn days — the kind that makes Santa Barbara such a wonderful place to live. The marine layer we often wake up to in the gloomier months was gone, replaced by a light blue sky that contrasted perfectly against the shimmering outline of the mountain backdrop. The air warmed enough for t-shirts and shorts by mid-morning, and the feeling was more like that of an early September day than the middle of November. It was,
Ray Ford: Remembering the Painted Cave Fire (opens the original)
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For three days the heat had been building over Santa Barbara like pressure in a sealed room. The sun beat down on red-tile roofs. Tourists and residents fled to the shade or the beach. Car radiators boiled over on Highway 101. At night the air barely cooled. At 9 p.m. the thermometer still read 84 degrees; by midnight people were sleeping under sheets, not blankets, waiting for relief that never really came. By Wednesday, June 27, 1990, there was a sense of foreboding in the air, as if the city
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