Red flag warnings are a life-saving warning issued ... J ennifer Gray is a weather and climate writer for weather.com. She has been covering some of the world's biggest weather and climate ...

And the chief cause is no mystery; it’s climate change that has, among many other things, prompted repeated droughts, given rise to more lightning and windstorms, and created an epidemic of parched ...

Red flag warnings are issued when ... The conditions are expected to change over the next two weeks, according to the NWS Climate Prediction Center. Nebraska is expecting below-normal temperatures ...

Winds in the area were blowing at about 20-30mph (32-48km/h), but could pick up, which would fan the blaze and make it harder ...

The fires are spreading in the middle of winter thanks to California's dry climate ... under freeze warnings and frost advisories while Southern California is under a red flag warning.