Heh, a lot of stuff on my brush pile isn’t wood.
We’re just into the Orange today at 106. No rain in the forecast. Already 75° out. So my thoughts of airing out the house a little have fallen by the wayside.
It crept up to 4 today for us, just starting blue to yellow, but now it’s raining, which should help bring particulates down.
50 today. Rains coming, which may help.
We’re back down to 75, right in the middle of “moderate”, Supposed to be moderate tomorrow and good the next day.
Code Orange (109) here today but that has more to do with ozone rather than smoke.
125 in my neck of the woods. Not affecting me as badly this time around, but maybe that’s because I’ve had my air filter going yesterday and, I dunno, just finding it easier to deal with today.
Good AQI, lower temp, lower pollen here in my part of Oregon this morning. It’s actually possible to air the house for a couple of hours.
- I don’t notice any problems.
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Actually looked into this - apparently it was mostly a larger particle size than the prior wave of smoke. Maybe that made the difference? Or at least was a factor?
BC is burning. We’re getting the remnants of their forests floating over us today. The Sun was two hands high in the sky this evening, but red like it was just setting. Getting a smoke warning on my emergency alerts app.
I feel most badly for the people from Yellowknife. They relocated 90% of its denizens.
Extreme warning here: 11 on the Air Quality index used by Environment Canada: “Very High Health Risk”.
I really wish Canada would stop burning.
Any idea when those fires are going to abate? Come under control? Sputter their last?
Once the snow gets 3 feet deep. That’ll smother the ones burning and prevent more from starting. (only semi-serious, but not entirely facetious) What’s going to stop fires is enough moisture, not mere cold.
Sadly, yes. One of the issues in northern Saskatchewan this summer was that the snowpack in the winter was below average (so I was told by a person who lives in that area). That meant that our northern forest was drier than normal, and more apt to catch on fire in the summer.
I read somewhere recently once these forests burn^, it can take thirty years to restore the moisture needed to restore natural fire resistance. This number surprised me. No one expects huge trees to quickly recover, but couldn’t groundwater reserves be replenished with a few snowy years? Anyone learned able to comment on this? I’m sure there is more to fire resistance than mere moisture, methinks, maybe miscellaneous methods mandate measurably mature manifestations mitigating microdamage modifying meadowland?
^ Can’t quite remember the source. It is possible they were talking about fires in Hawaii and not Hundred Mile House… But for some reason don’t think so…
Speculating: live vegetation holds water and also shades the dirt from solar heating and therefore greater evaporation. Dead vegetation does none of that.
In the mountainous west, there’s also the fact that vegetated slopes slow the descent of water which allows some soaking in. After major fires there are often land- or mudslides and the amount and rate of runoff goes way up for the same amount of rainfall. Meanwhile, the substrate exposed by the slides is generally less absorbtive material.
All those things would tend to suggest that capturing water locally is more difficult post-burn than pre-burn. Which might well lead to a long drawn out process of slowly capturing a bit of water than permits a bit of vegetation as the whole thing bootstraps slowly back to equilibrium.