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...
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Forecast for today was an insignificant sprinkle of rain less than 1mm (approx. 1/16"). Woke up this morning to heavy rainfall instead. It's not often I welcome rain around here but this is wonderful. The sun is supposed to return on Sunday. Hope it is at least cooler from now on.
This has been an unprecedented year for forest fires in BC with over 2.7 million acres affected to date. We need a lot more rain in the coming weeks to get the fires under control and there isn't any heavy and sustained rain in the forecast yet. It's expected there will be a significant impact on the forestry industry.
A high temp. record was smashed this past Monday at 38C (100F). It's been so dry and crispy around our province, it doesn't take much for a fire to start.
This has been an unprecedented year for forest fires in BC with over 2.7 million acres affected to date. We need a lot more rain in the coming weeks to get the fires under control and there isn't any heavy and sustained rain in the forecast yet. It's expected there will be a significant impact on the forestry industry.
A high temp. record was smashed this past Monday at 38C (100F). It's been so dry and crispy around our province, it doesn't take much for a fire to start.
