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Josh Edelson

Houseboats on a drought-depleted Lake Oroville in Oroville, California on September 5, 2021. Much of California was gripped by excessive heat through the summer.

Firefighters battle blazes from the Hog fire, which exploded across more than 9,500 acres of land in Northern California, near Susanville, on July 20, 2020. The fire was so intense it produced a pyrocumulonimbus cloud and fire whirls.

Firefighters look on as a thunderstorm cell draws in a smoke column from the Hog fire on July 21, 2020. Alhough pyrocumulonimbus clouds rarely produce precipitation, this one eventually evolved into a hail storm that extinguished some of the flames—and fanned others.

Search and rescue teams scramble to evacuate patients as the Feather River Hospital burns during the Camp fire in Paradise, California.