the "CA Fires 2020" thread

[PatColo]

As I sit here in Sac, outside is a surrealistic smoke from horizon to horizon situation, can smell it, eyes mildly irritated, the whole shit show. Ran an errand in my car this AM - greeted my car to find it with a light coating of ASH. :o Logged into my credit union acct yest, greeted by a notice that several bay area / sac branches are closed due to poor air... if it's THAT bad, the branch and/or its employees/homes may have an actual FIRE threat which they need to stay attuned to.

Late Sun night, like 12-1a, I was just trying to settle in for bed, & there was a RAINLESS lightning/thunder storm -- this is attributed as being the cause for all the fires. Never experienced anything like it.

It's also on the heels of an "unprecedented heat wave" in Nor Cal (& So Cal?); in Sac, 100-113 the daily highs for past couple weeks. 99 high expected in Sac today, I think the first <100 day in ~2 weeks?
https://darksky.net/forecast/38.5787,-121.4668/us12/en

So looks like dajooz are going to be treating CA to yet another late Summer/Fall Agenda 21/30 engineered fire season! :rolleyes:


California Fire Map & Tracker (https://www.sfchronicle.com/projects/california-fire-map/)
Updated: Aug. 20, 2020 11:19 a.m.
An interactive map of wildfires burning across the Bay Area and California.

https://i.imgur.com/gDMISuj.png (https://www.sfchronicle.com/projects/california-fire-map/)

[PatColo]

SF Chronicle's current headline,


California wildfires are so intense they’re frying the fire cams (https://www.sfchronicle.com/california-wildfires/article/See-dramatic-time-lapse-images-of-wildfire-15496690.php)

Five remote wildfire cameras, including three in the Bay Area, have been destroyed or severely damaged so far in the recent blazes. It’s a first for the network of about 500 cameras that monitor wildfire activity across California. (https://www.sfchronicle.com/california-wildfires/article/See-dramatic-time-lapse-images-of-wildfire-15496690.php)

https://s.hdnux.com/photos/01/13/51/11/19829371/13/ratio3x2_2350.jpg (https://www.sfchronicle.com/california-wildfires/article/See-dramatic-time-lapse-images-of-wildfire-15496690.php)

[monty]

Yesterday morning in central Nevada the air was smoky with decreased visibility and the smell of the smoke from California’s fires

[PatColo]

California wildfires spawn first ‘gigafire’ in modern history
(https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/oct/06/california-wildfires-gigafire-first)
August complex fire expanded beyond 1m acres, elevating it from a mere ‘megafire’ to a new classification: ‘gigafire’

Oliver Milman (https://www.theguardian.com/profile/oliver-milman) and Vivian Ho (https://www.theguardian.com/profile/vivian-ho)
Tue 6 Oct 2020 12.11 EDTLast modified on Tue 6 Oct 2020 17.05 EDT

At 1.03m acres, the fire is larger than the state of Rhode Island and is raging across seven counties, according to fire agency Cal Fire. Photograph: Noah Berger/AP