LOS ANGELES —  July was believed to be the hottest month ever recorded, packed with weather anomalies, heat waves, historic rains, hot ocean temperatures and raging wildfires that continue to burn.

Dr. Bill Deverell, professor of history, spatial sciences and environmental studies at the University of Southern California and the director of The Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West joins “Your Morning” to discuss.

When asked what kind of weather California will see for the rest of this year, Deverell predicted “hot and fire.”

”We’ve dodged a bullet a bit this summer but the recent indications and the fires burning in Riverside and out of Mojave suggest that the months between now and the end of the calendar year are likely to reveal… fires raging out of control that could become very, very quickly catastrophic,” he said.