Wildfires

[Lewis]

Current overview of wildfires happening in Australia. Authorities are saying the worst is yet to come because its going to get hotter and drier with no rain in the forecast. https://7news.com.au/news/bushfires/sydney-told-to-brace-for-huge-fire-losses-c-599520

 

[Lewis]

Key culprit of why its so bad with fires in Australia.

 

http://media.bom.gov.au/releases/727/summer-outlook-shows-warmer-and-drier-conditions-likely-to-continue-into-2020/

 

"The key culprit for our current and expected conditions is one of the strongest positive Indian Ocean Dipole (IOD) events on record," Dr Watkins said.

"A positive IOD means we have cooler than average water pooling off Indonesia, and this means we see less rain-bearing weather systems, and warmer than average temperatures for large parts of the country.

"The positive IOD means we're also expecting a delayed onset for the northern monsoon, one of the key drivers for tropical rainfall during the summer months.

"At this stage we're expecting the onset of the northern monsoon by mid-summer, which should see the odds for closer to average rainfall increasing from January and into February."

 

[Lewis]

Wildfires are burning 5 Million Acres in SIberia and Eastern Russia, 10 times worse compared to this time last year.

 

https://www.ecowatch.com/wildfires-siberia-russia-2645912533.html?rebelltitem=1#rebelltitem1

[Lewis]

Siberian Wildfires Have Burned an Area more than Three Times the Size of Delaware.

https://earther.gizmodo.com/we-should-probably-talk-about-the-huge-wildfires-in-sib-1843205527

 

[Lewis]

Brazilian Amazon deforestation hits new record in May. https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/world/brazilian-amazon-deforestation-hits-new-record-in-may-12831346

 

And the worst months have yet to come....

 

A total of 829 square kilometres (320 square miles) in the Brazilian Amazon, 14 times the area of Manhattan, was lost to deforestation in May, according to satellite data from Brazil's National Space Research Institute (INPE).

That was a 12-per cent increase from last year, and the worst May since record keeping began in August 2015.

Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon is now at more than 2,000 square kilometres so far this year, up 34 per cent from the same period last year.

[Lewis]

Arizona is besieged by wildfires, burning 114,000 acres, area size of Denver and only 5% contained. And all the while the COVID-19 pandemic is on the rise in Arizona.

 

Becoming the new normal with these wildfires.

 

https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2020/06/18/weather/arizona-wildfires-coronavirus-climate-change/index.html

[Lewis]

California wildfires set record as more than 2 million acres are scorched and continuing, previous record acres burned was set in 2018 at 1.98 million acres and killed more than 100 people most of them in the deadly camp fire that burned through the butte county town of Paradise.

 

Fire season normally peaks in October.

 

https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/California-wildfires-set-record-as-more-than-2-15548079.php

 

 

[Lewis]

That smoke is brutal, its everywhere.

 

https://www.ospo.noaa.gov/Products/land/hms.html

 

*Need to click on the maps icon (Globe icon on left) to see it*

Edited September 10, 2020 by Lewis

[Lewis]

Wildfires brought an Orange sky to SAN Francisco on Sept 9. Drone footage of it in this video.

 

 

 

[Lewis]

The Arctic is burning like never before and thats bad news for global warming.

 

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-02568-y?utm_source=Nature+Briefing&utm_campaign=44f6a8b6bc-briefing-dy-20200911&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_c9dfd39373-44f6a8b6bc-44556745

 

[CHecker]

Lewis, thanks for your due diligence on this subject. 

Being part of the Pacific NW fires, suffering massive smoke, I can relate.

It really has me concerned when the arctic is involved. Wow, what could be released from those bogs😳

[Lewis]

Yup i agree, and what happens in the Arctic will unfortunately affect the entire globe. A great tribulation indeed is coming.

[Lewis]

In USA, wildfire risk is incredibly high for Utah, Nevada, Arizona and New Mexico due to record high droughts in the West.

 

 

 

 

[Tortuga]

California is going to have a terrible fire season this year. Some of the reservoirs are the lowest they have been in over 30 years. The California Fire department is having a hard time hiring enough manpower, so, low water, low manpower, bad season.

[Lewis]

Yeah its not going to be pretty. There is a potential water war brewing in the California/Oregon border because now the Klamath Basin water supply got shutdown by the government to protect its fish species. And now farmers are cut off from that water supply and are struggling to get their crops growing.

[Lewis]

Wildfires caught on Satellite having weird behaviours in BC, they are called pyrocumulonimbus plumes, in another words the fires are creating a cloud that is causing lightning and igniting more fires.

 

Australia had this problem last year and also California also had the same thing, now it happened in BC.

 

 

[Lewis]

People living in Lytton had to endure temperatures of 49.6C and then a wildfire tore through the town and now everything is burned down. Horrible.

 

I live 3 hours drive from Lytton. We have air quality warnings due to the wildfires.

 

 

[Lewis]

Smoke exposure from the wildfires today. USA and Canada and Siberia

 

https://rapidrefresh.noaa.gov/RAPsmoke/displayMapLocalDiskDateDomainZipTZA.cgi?keys=rap_ncep_smoke_jet:&runtime=2021071811&plot_type=trc1_int&fcst=21&time_inc=60&num_times=52&model=rr&ptitle=RAP-Smoke Model Fields&maxFcstLen=51&fcstStrLen=-1&domain=full&adtfn=1

 

[Friends just call me Ross]

Smoke blocked the sun over our farm in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, causing our hay not to dry properly. 

 

Same thing happened here last summer.

 

Smoking is hazardous to our hay operation's health.

[Lewis]

Sorry to hear about that Rosanne. welcome to the new normal now.

 

We now have five seasons. winter, spring, summer, smoke and autumn.

[Lewis]

Today’s smoke from wildfires

 

[Lewis]

Todays smoke pattern.

 

 

[Lewis]

So in 2020 we had a record of carbon dioxide released in the atmosphere from Siberian wildfires, new data now shows 2121 doubled the carbon dioxide release that of 2020.

 

[Lewis]

2020 was definitely the year of wildfires.

 

 

[Lewis]

Intense fire developing through Colorado also.

 

Colorado is under evacuation order as they are stating “levels of devastation not seen before” in Colorado.

 

Here is a close up view inside a chuck e cheese of wind blowing 100 mph and fire ravaging through the town.

 

 

 

Edited December 31, 2021 by Lewis