It's fire season again

[Sierratim]

An early Christmas present; California's State Capitol area is finally moving out of fire season!

Residents in So Cal are facing additional fire precaution power shut offs as high winds are expected over Christmas.

 

[steve mercier]

How do you feel about a carbon tax Tim?

 

[Art Deco]

An early Christmas present; California's State Capitol area is finally moving out of fire season!

Residents in So Cal are facing additional fire precaution power shut offs as high winds are expected over Christmas.

So was this fire season 4 months long ? Going by thread date . And what has been the normal length in past years ? Just curious.

 

[Sierratim]

So was this fire season 4 months long ? Going by thread date . And what has been the normal length in past years ? Just curious.

Our fire season in Nor Cal usually lasts from the mid-AUG thunder storms until the first rains in mid-OCT. This year's season has been longer and much more intense. For So Cal it's made worse by the cyclic low rainfall they've gotten (0" in DEC) due to the La Nina ocean currents along the coast.

 

[Mr. Coffee]

So was this fire season 4 months long ? Going by thread date . And what has been the normal length in past years ? Just curious.

Fire seasons are for sure getting longer:

Satellite Data Record Shows Climate Change's Impact on Fires – Climate Change: Vital Signs of the Planet

Over the past several decades, as the world has increasingly warmed, so has its potential to burn.

climate.nasa.gov

 

[steve mercier]

Fire seasons are for sure getting longer:

Satellite Data Record Shows Climate Change's Impact on Fires – Climate Change: Vital Signs of the Planet

Over the past several decades, as the world has increasingly warmed, so has its potential to burn.

climate.nasa.gov

How do you feel about a carbon tax Mr Coffee?

 

[Mr. Coffee]

How do you feel about a carbon tax Mr Coffee?

100% for it.

Keep in mind that if you own and operate a coal-fired plant in the United States, Canada, or Europe at this point it makes more business sense to abandon the plant and build a wind farm or solar farm. You'll make more money.

 

[Sierratim]

How do you feel about a carbon tax Tim?

I think carbon taxes for industries that have a practical alternative make sense as a part of a multi-pronged approach to climate change. As to fire suppression in California there are other factors also in play. Tree harvesting and even thinning has been effectively eliminated in much of California's forests leading to millions of standing dead trees and feet of wood debris on much of the forest floor. Even if the impacts of climate change were reversed these impacts would remain for decades, if not generations, to come. A non-reveune focused carbon tax will not address this.

 

[steve mercier]

" Even if the impacts of climate change were reversed these impacts would remain for decades, if not generations, to come. " So what is to be done then.? Accept the situation as hopeless?

 

[Sierratim]

Not what I said.

 

[steve mercier]

Not what I said.

The answers to these problems are above my pay grade.

 

[john peck]

I just read today the 90% of life on earth doesn´t need a brain to survive. Why am I
not surprised?

 

[Sierratim]

California's electric utilities are again announcing power shut offs due to expected high winds and dry conditions. Winds hit 50mph in California's Sacramento River delta today. Wild fires have agian broken out in Southern California. Here in the Sierra foothills we've had to turn our yard sprinklers back on due to the lack of rain. High wind warnings have been posted for our area through TUES night.

 

[Art Deco]

California's electric utilities are again announcing power shut offs due to expected high winds and dry conditions. Winds hit 50mph in California's Sacramento River delta today. Wild fires have agian broken out in Southern California. Here in the Sierra foothills we've had to turn our yard sprinklers back on due to the lack of rain. High wind warnings have been posted for our area through TUES night.

Mid Jan . Still sounds like fire season . 5 months .

 

[mogulskier]

Yup. Lots of wind-related damage here in the Bay Area this morning. Dangerously dry and unusually warm in the mid 70's. No significant rain anywhere in the forecast. Not good. We are well short in terms of rainfall.

Hope the Sierra has ample supply of snow pack. We are going to need it.

Pray for rain. I love sunny warm weather as much as the next guy, but also realize that in the winter months we depend on getting rain and snow in the mountains; alot of it.

 

[FlatSix911]

Yup. Lots of wind-related damage here in the Bay Area this morning. Dangerously dry and unusually warm in the mid 70's. No significant rain anywhere in the forecast. Not good. We are well short in terms of rainfall.

Hope the Sierra has ample supply of snow pack. We are going to need it.

Pray for rain. I love sunny warm weather as much as the next guy, but also realize that in the winter months we depend on getting rain and snow in the mountains; alot of it.

Yes, it has been Summer weather this week in the Bay Area... pray for rain, or here comes another drought!

 

[Cowlitz]

On the bright side, firefighters will be able to buy new cars and trucks with all their overtime.

 

[Sierratim]

Yup. Lots of wind-related damage here in the Bay Area this morning. Dangerously dry and unusually warm in the mid 70's. No significant rain anywhere in the forecast. Not good. We are well short in terms of rainfall.

Hope the Sierra has ample supply of snow pack. We are going to need it.

Pray for rain. I love sunny warm weather as much as the next guy, but also realize that in the winter months we depend on getting rain and snow in the mountains; alot of it.

The snow surveys are coming in well under 'normal'...

 

[pmcdonald]

Sadly (well, for you on the east of the Pacific, great for us on the west for a change) your turn for the la Nina dry cycle.

 

[Sierratim]

Fire season in mid-January,

https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2021/01/20/california-santa-ana-winds-wildfires/