I was luckily staying in Santa Barbara with 2 of my children at the time so when I returned to northern California on the coast I was very surprised at the number of trees blown down last year around this time (likely in February 2019). But, at first I only found about 35 trees blown down until I was cruising around my area and found about 75 more at a golf course within 5 miles of where I live that were all over 1 foot through or more in diameter by the way. This wasn't little trees but big ones. They were mostly pines as we live on the northern California coast. Redwoods don't live as much right on the ocean but like the valleys where streams sometimes run the most just away from the oceans. Also, redwoods also don't usually burn down in fires as their bark is fire retardant which is an another interesting fact about redwoods which is also why some of them are up to 5000 years old or more inland in the Sierras in the form of Sequioa Redwoods.
This year in California we have mostly been in a drought since the middle of January. It's lightly raining today but there is likely no way to make up for no real rain since mid January unless it's some kind of fluke. But, it's also true we had more rain in May in 2019 than we have had in probably 100 years too. So, in that sense almost anything can and will happen with global warming the way it is not only in California but also worldwide.
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