Hot, dry and windy weather helped create the conditions needed for wildfires to explode in northern and southern California in November 2018. 

The 2017-2018 water year came to a dry end in California at the end of September, a year after wet conditions alleviated drought. 

Nighttime temperatures across much of California were record warm in July 2018, part of an accelerating warming trend in the state since the start of the twenty-first century. 

Strong winds whipped wildfires into a frenzy near Athens, Greece, during the end of July, leading to one of the worst wildfire tragedies in the country's history.

Exceptional drought in preceding months primed southern Colorado forests for wildfire in mid-June 2018.

Extremely dry and windy conditions helped rapidly grow and spread wildfires across Oklahoma in April 2018.

Uncommonly large wildfires for so late in the season devastated parts of southern California, especially in areas around Los Angeles.

Mount Agung in Indonesia erupted for the first time since 1963 causing widespread evacuations on the island of Bali. But is it a climate event? 

Suffocating smog stifled communities across northern India and Pakistan in mid-November 2017.

After becoming the farthest east major hurricane on record in the Atlantic, former hurricane Ophelia set its eyes on Ireland.