It's a mess, that's for sure.
It's kind of the "perfect storm" type of situation here in WA, with multiple factors all happening at the same time, resulting in extreme fire danger, far worse than ever before
1. Very low snow pack in the mountains, due to very little precipitation.
2. Warmer than normal temps in January-March, so what little so there was, didn't last long, and very little new snow came in Feb and March due to low precipitation
3. Extremely warm temps far too early in the season - in June, we had temps that aren't seen until August - many days in the 90s and 100s where I live in Spokane, as well as other parts of the state.
4. The extreme temps just keep continuing!
Ash is falling at my place today.
The lightning last Thursday / Friday have really made a mess in the north central part of the state - Chelan county, Okanagon County, and NE part of state: Stevens County.
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T911 has been based a the Moses Lake airport (aka Moses Lake Airtanker Base / Grant County Airport - an ex Air Force base)for a few weeks. Boeing does flight testing there - it's not uncommon to see 747s flying around in circles.
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