2021 West Coast Wildfires

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The smoke has finally reached the east coast. Nasty thick air today. 

Todays sky.

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This is what it normally looks like.

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Y'all using gas masks out west ?

No smoke in Seattle as yet, and hope it stays that way.  After the bizarre 107 degree day we hit in June, things have calmed back down here.  This week, the weather will be what we all love about Summer here, highs in the upper 70s with overnight lows in the mid 50s with a morning marine layer and sunny clear skies by noontime.  The smoke season, which has only become a thing in the last 5 years, has usually arrived in early August.  Fingers crossed it doesn't happen this year.  I'm thinking about wearing a mask again, but at this point, not for smoke.

Thankfully for this town, the smoke right now is blowing east.   

The smoke and destruction from the fires in September was apocalyptic and has left us with a sort of collective PTSD when it comes to wildfires.

In normal years the rain used to return in August. before a drier early Fall.

Not holding my breath.

I noticed the smokey haze from those fires in Denver last week. 

yeah i mean not sure what to do at this point?

and water is becoming a larger issue by the minute...

there is no longer really an off-season for the hotshots and other personnel.

 

All of earths water is fucked up. Tropical Opah fish washed up on a beach in Oregon recently,, but you still can't convince a repub there's climate change going on now. The variant taking em out may be our only Saving Grace (great Steve Miller song)

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There's a large "hot spot" in the Ocean a thousand(s) miles off the Oregon coast, not suppose to be there, don't think i've ever seen one like this out there before.  (Need a bunch of strong winter storms to punch it back to normal, but we haven't had that kind of zonal flow out there for a long time)

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Meanwhile...  (with now dated numbers)

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More Pics Of That Rad Opah.

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I have also read somewhere the Sahara Sands will be arriving in the US soon.

I read in today's newspaper that as of yesterday, the "Bootleg Fire" in southern Oregon had consumed 476 square miles, bigger than Los Angeles, 1/3 the size of Rhode Island, and other comparisons will be made. It's a huge fucking fire. The article was pointing out how vast the U.S. West is and that so much of it is wild. The fire won't be extinguished until months from now.

>>>>There's a large "hot spot" in the Ocean

It's from Fukushima, that's what a lot of people are saying.

Temperature anomaly from Fukushima not possible. A radiation "hot spot" from there is possible, however, although not likely.

Yesterday the air was shite on the Colorado front range. AQI was in the unhealthy range. 130 ish. 

 

We have smoke haze from the West coast here on the East coast for the last couple of days.  

I just postponed a road trip down to SF and other Norcal locations to visit friends next week. Was going to return over the Sierras and through Reno and the east side of the mountains on the way back- up to Klamath and quick stop at Crater Lake. A huge fire north west of Reno and the BOOTLEG has kiboshed plans for now.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPhqgl__XmQ

 

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7/21/21 2:47 PM Fire Overview

Source: NWCC(Northwest Interagency Coordination Center), InciWeb)

Oregon fires

* BOOTLEG (Location: 15 miles NW of Beatty, OR)
Acres: 395,463 - Cause: Lightning - Percent Contained: 32% - Estimated Containment Date: 2021-10-01

* BRULER (Location: 9 miles S of Detroit, OR) 
Acres: 195 - Cause: Under Investigation - Percent Contained: 12% - Estimated Containment Date: 2021-09-30

* ELBOW CREEK (Location: 31 miles SE of Walla Walla, WA)
Acres: 18,590 - Cause: Under Investigation - Percent Contained: 20% - Estimated Containment Date: 2021-08-15

* GRANDVIEW (Location: 10 miles northeast of Sisters, OR)
Acres: 6,032 - Cause: Under Investigation - Percent Contained: 84% - Estimated Containment Date: 2021-07-23

* JACK (Location: 20 miles E of Glide, OR)
Acres: 18,993 - Cause: Under Investigation - Percent Contained: 55% - Estimated Containment Date: 2021-08-15

Washington fires

* CEDAR CREEK (Location: 4 miles WSW of Mazama, WA)
Acres: 14,857- Cause: Lightning - Percent Contained: 11% - Estimated Containment Date: 2021-10-31

* CHUWEAH CREEK (Location: Near and east of Nespelem, WA)
Acres: 36,407 - Cause: Lightning - Percent Contained: 40% - Estimated Containment Date: 2021-07-27

* CUB CREEK (Location: 5 miles N of Wintrop, WA)
Acres: 35,134 - Cause: Under Investigation - Percent Contained: 5% - Estimated Containment Date: 2021-08-31

* DELANCY (Location: 4 miles W of Mazama, WA) 
Acres: 180 - Cause: Under Investigation - Percent Contained: 0% - Estimated Containment Date: 2021-10-31

* GODDARD ROAD (Location: 2 miles N of Rice, WA)
Acres: 724 - Cause: Under Investigation - Percent Containment: 25% - Estimated Containment Date: 2021-07-30

* GREEN RIDGE (Location: 30 miles E of Walla Walla, WA)
Acres: 3,248 - Cause: Lightning - Percent Contained: 15% - Estimated Containment Date: 2021-08-31

* LICK CREEK (Location: 2 miles SW of Asotin, WA) 
Acres: 73,528- Cause: Lightning - Percent Contained: 45% - Estimated Containment Date: 2021-09-01

* RED APPLE (Location: Near/Adjacent to Wenatchee, Monitor, WA)
Acres: 12,288 - Cause: Under Investigation - Percent Contained: 94% - Estimated Containment Date: 2021-07-19

* SUMMIT TRAIL (Location: 17 miles W of Inchelium, WA)
Acres: 5,359 - Cause: Lightning - Percent Contained: 0% - Estimated Containment Date: 2021-07-31

And

GOD BLESS OUR FIREFIGHTERS

 

 

Oregon campfire ban East of I-5 begins today. No fires, including in campsites, designated fire rings, pits, etc.

Headache season is starting early this year for me.