Smoke from a series of large wildfires burning in Northern California and Oregon is riding steady northerly winds into the Bay Area, lowering air quality to unhealthy levels in much of the region.
The Bay Area Air Quality Management District issued a Spare the Air alert that will remain in effect at least through Thursday, but after that it’s unclear if smoky conditions will linger or how intense they might be if they do.
The district previously issued an air quality advisory through Wednesday but upgraded it to a Spare the Air alert — which bans burning wood, fire logs or other solid fuel — because the air in many places had reached unhealthy levels, particularly in parts of the South Bay and East Bay.
“The forecast models said we’d see impacts from smoke but not as much as we did, so it did catch us a little bit off guard,” said Charley Knoderer, a meteorologist manager at the air district.
While the impacts from wildfire smoke are always difficult to forecast, current conditions were particularly challenging to predict because much of the smoke that’s drifting into the Bay Area is coming off the ocean, where there are no air quality sensors, and prediction models didn’t immediately pick up on the plume’s movement into the region.
The smoke is coming in from several massive wildfires, including the Smith River Complex Fire, SRF Lightning Complex and Redwood Lightning Complex fires, the Flat Fire and the Anvil Fire, which along with other blazes are burning more than 200,000 acres in Southern Oregon and Northern California.
People can monitor the region’s air quality by visiting the Air District’s interactive map here https://fire.airnow.gov/.
I’m fully aware. I’m also sick of the idiots blaming all fires on their made up global warming 🙄
You cannot fight these fires with helicopters and firefighters on the ground. Cal Fire and the US Forest Service are not going about fighting these fires in the correct manor. We have money for the Ukraine but no money for a fleet of 747s to put these fires out. There was a time when we had ten times the fire lookout posts as we do now. There was a time when we didn’t have as many arsonists as we do now. We have all heard of the big fires in Greece this year that the eco terrorists blame on climate change. Not taking into account that Greece has arrested a hundred arsonists just this year.These fires are being used by eco whakos as proof of climate change and I have no doubt they are setting some of these fires. Don’t drive your electric car in a forested area.
I don’t know about 747s, seems a little large to use for this. They seem to go for the C class transport planes which probably are better suited to carry retardant and more maneurvarable. They use these around here.
Evidently my last post didn’t go through. 747s manuver just fine. Like all jets they have to avoid ash.
Ricardoh, the French and then USA tried carpet bombing Vietnam. It did not work. Our butts got kicked out. The Russians, and then USA, tried carpet bombing Afghanistan Both of us got kicked out.
To take and then hold hostile territory takes an enormous amount of resources. Mainly it’s infantry boots on the ground. For every person with a gun or fire hose, you need at least ten more support people such as cooks, mechanics, medical, supply procurement, storage, administration, and delivery, administration/coordination. The infantry works best when supported by tanks, and heavy guns. Those things likely have much more than a ten to one ratio of support needed. If possible, get naval support but the ratio seems close to 50 to 1. Finally, it’s air and space support. Each aircraft is supported by about 500 people and spacecraft need well over a thousand.
By the time you add it up, you can bankrupt, most if not all countries. Instead, we go the more prudent route, budget wise, and allow fires to burn, which both clears the terrain of brush, and gives you time to pick your points of attack.
What are you talking about?
On my walk yesterday morning I noticed the smoke, which was not very intense, included some chemical odor as if burning tires too. However when I went out to water stuff in the evening there wasn’t any smoke. I don’t see much of any haze this morning either.
GOES-West
Late afternoon SW Oregon and NW California you’ll see smoke bloom up.
Last night and this morning central valley was blanketed.
https://tinyurl.com/2dn8db7z
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https://ops.alertcalifornia.org/cameras
Left map box zoom map into NW CA.
Just another alarmist “The sky is falling” notice by the liberal media and liberal goverment “out of an abundance of caution”.
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CA is such a nanny state.
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What? No so-called “experts” are able to make a forecast about wind directions?
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But “experts” can predict higher sea levels 50 years from now, right?
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Maybe you climate experts can cite how many heating and cooling cycles have occured on Earth in the last 1000 years.