FlatSix911
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Wow, that's not good... I have to check on my friends in Portland.
It's fire season again
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Wow, that's not good... I have to check on my friends in Portland.
PatriciaK
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Guess we're "lucky" right now at 152! Supposed to increase overnight.
fooferdoggie
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it was 297 at night and usually it goes down in the day but not today.
Sierratim
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Smoke is down to ground level now, looks like a dense fog. The sun hasn't been seen all day.
Our AQI is at 353 with ozone at 89. We normally have clear blue skies. This is extremely unusual for us. I'm not a happy camper...
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Mr. Coffee
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Normal:
Today, AQI right around 200:
Today, AQI right around 200:
fooferdoggie
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man it is getting worse. no wind or even a breeze for two days. about 1 block visibility
FlatSix911
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Could be the fires started in Portland.
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FlatSix911
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Be sure to add NOx, SOx, and COx to the index.
Mr. Coffee
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I've had to evacuate multiple times in recent years, and each time is progressively more traumatic. Right now I know people who are displaced and either have lost their homes or don't yet know if they still have a home. What is crazy is that those people are in Washington, Oregon, and California.
I understand the anger. Honestly the anger feels better than despair, at least a bit.
fooferdoggie
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man it is getting worse
reed scott
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No fires in Canada or Mexico.
Mr. Coffee
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You're badly wrong. It looks like the map you are using is from inciweb or derived from it and that only shows fires in the states.
24 wildfires in BC:
Art Deco
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/offtopic I remember major fires in the Amazon recently, but those were apparently set to clear land for ranches, not lightning, campfires, or climate change. Equally stupid though. I wonder how Canada manages forests. offtopic/
Mr. Coffee
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About as poorly as the United States.
Alberta had an extremely catastrophic fire year last year, and BC periodically has massive fires, especially in the interior.
There are three things that have to happen to produce a wildfire catastrophe: a wind event, dry fuel conditions, and an ignition. Even very slightly higher temperatures, over time, can produce dramatic drying of fuels. Lower temperatures (well, technically, lower temperature differences) aren't as likely to produce lightning either. So given that Canada is further north than California they will, on the average, have fewer catastrophic wildfire events than California. An added bonus the Canadians have is that their population densities are generally lower so they have a smaller population of idiots out trying to cook hotdogs.
The very slightly higher temperatures, over time, that we are seeing are a clear climate change signal. And that has produced dramatically dryer fuels that produce these wildfire events that are, again, a clear climate change signal.
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reed scott
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reed scott
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Look, I'm just looking at the maps.
fooferdoggie
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and today its worse no air movement at all.
