Wildfires are bad this year in the PNW
Have never seen it this bad in my nearly 65 years of living in the southwest corner of BC. It's about 9:30 am and the sun is a dull orange ball from all the smoke. It was dark all day yesterday from the smoke and smelled of smoke. The smoke was trapping heat and preventing it from escaping into the atmosphere - got really humid and also very warm for Sept.
The smoke is apparently mostly from Wa. state and some from Oregon. There is a bad fire east of Portland up the Columbia Gorge. Last month BC was sending smoke into Washington, but things are much worse now and is coming up to us fro WA. Two summers ago was bad for wildfires around here but this is even worse. Last summer was fairly "normal".
It rained almost non-stop every day this spring here, and at the start of summer, the clouds suddenly disappeared and never came back.
Just had to get a tanker truck fill our surface well for the first time and decent rain could be months away.
Glad we went on our annual RV-ing vacation in early August this year instead of the usual Aug./Sept. Have been thinking of an early fall trip to a CG in the Cascades in WA or OR but may have to head out to the coast. It's looking like the next couple of months are going to be dry which will not be good for wildfires. Almost made it to Yellowstone NP last summer but bailed out at last minute due to a fire nearby in Montana.
This is an interesting 12 minute video of fighting wildfires in Colorado from a firefighter's perspective and how climate change is affecting it. Fighting Colorado Widfires. Don't want to debate climate change, but all the scientific evidence is out there and what it's doing and what the predictions are for the future.
The smoke is apparently mostly from Wa. state and some from Oregon. There is a bad fire east of Portland up the Columbia Gorge. Last month BC was sending smoke into Washington, but things are much worse now and is coming up to us fro WA. Two summers ago was bad for wildfires around here but this is even worse. Last summer was fairly "normal".
It rained almost non-stop every day this spring here, and at the start of summer, the clouds suddenly disappeared and never came back.
Just had to get a tanker truck fill our surface well for the first time and decent rain could be months away.
Glad we went on our annual RV-ing vacation in early August this year instead of the usual Aug./Sept. Have been thinking of an early fall trip to a CG in the Cascades in WA or OR but may have to head out to the coast. It's looking like the next couple of months are going to be dry which will not be good for wildfires. Almost made it to Yellowstone NP last summer but bailed out at last minute due to a fire nearby in Montana.
This is an interesting 12 minute video of fighting wildfires in Colorado from a firefighter's perspective and how climate change is affecting it. Fighting Colorado Widfires. Don't want to debate climate change, but all the scientific evidence is out there and what it's doing and what the predictions are for the future.
