Posted on 10/01/2023 5:50:39 AM PDT by DoodleBob
An unprecedented fire season in Canada that began in May is set to roll into October still going strong. About 44 million acres (18 million hectares) have burned this year as 2023 continues its journey deep off the charts when it comes to areas scorched across the nation.
Large fires in the west engulfed hundreds of thousands of acres of forest over recent days as a strong area of low pressure offshore helped crank up winds in the drought-afflicted region. Mixed fire weather signals ahead include wind and some rain for British Columbia and Alberta, a building heat dome in the country’s center and a descent into the coming cold season.
In a typical year, the fire season would be ending or finished by this point. But it may take winter snows to finally smother the longest-lived blazes.
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Smoke outbreaks into the United States were numerous this summer. A persistent weather pattern that featured near-weekly cold fronts out of Canada helped steer the bad air stateside. It becomes more complicated as the cool season jet stream strengthens, exerting control and dislodging weather regimes more readily.
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There were never any fires in canaDUH before the invention of climate change.
We The People ought to try a variant of that down here.
Gee, I just wonder why they don’t ever publish a Drought Monitor map like the US? I just wonder if drought could be the cause. I just wonder.
Just think about all the poor animals out there being burned to death
It will start snowing in Canada pretty soon. That should slow down the arson hosers.
Because nature has no idea how to behave. 🤔😁👍
Environmentalists don’t care about animals. Quoth George Carlin:
I’m tired of these self-righteous environmentalists; these white, bourgeois liberals who think the only thing wrong with this country is there aren’t enough bicycle paths! People trying to make the world safe for their Volvo’s! Besides, environmentalists don’t give a s—- about the planet. They don’t care about the planet; not in the abstract they don’t. You know what they’re interested in? A clean place to live; their own habitat. They’re worried that someday in the future, they might be personally inconvenienced. Narrow, unenlightened self-interest doesn’t impress me.
I’m so glad we went. We hit eleven glorious days with clear blue skies and temps in the low 70s. We spotted a fire on a ridge above us at Shuswap near Sicamous not far from Salmon Arm in Central BC. We could see a few hot spots in the other side of Shuswap Lake. But that was it for smoke.
The coastal ranges at Whistler and east of Pemberton and the Canadian Rockies were magnificent. We love traveling in September after the summer crowds are gone and before fall really hits. Here we are only two weeks later and temps have dropped 20-25 degrees and the rains have started.
It’s not uncommon for fires to burn until the fall rains and winter snows finally put them out. We always get our share of American and Canadian smoke here in North Idaho, but sometimes you have to take these reports with a grain of salt.
Here are three pics I took showing the skies.
A few decades ago, when my kids were young, we went to Disneyland and a wildfire along the highway made the drive slow and smoky. Just as we pulled into the park the skies cleared and the sun came out, The wind was just right, blowing away from the park, but it sure seemed as if Disney was making its own weather!
Wonder if that was 1998. We had a lot of fires in Central Florida that year.
Then Global Warming ended and we went back to a normal amount :-)
sometimes you have to take these reports with a grain of salt.
And yes, I’ve noticed since 2020 a ramp-up in the sensationalism and fearpr0n that comes across the daily newsfeed. I can’t tell if it’s people who’ve lost hope that are sounding the alarm, paid provocateurs, or charlatans selling freeze-dried food on the side. I’m not saying things are peachy, but I also remember 1979 (and 2016…) and when everyone though America was a goner.
However, in the Northeast it’s been a summer of purple haze the likes of which NOBODY has seen. And my network of colleagues etc. have all validated the news.
Now, maybe it WAS an unprecedented fire season. Maybe manpower et al WERE overwhelmed. Maybe El Niño WAS too powerful.
But at the same time, priorities are priorities. The virtual absence of any meaningful response to this disaster was VERY telling. I can’t tell if that non-response was Taking Advantage of a Crisis to Push Climate Change, Governmental Incompetence de rigueur, or whatever.
But this was no boating accident.
You wrote "The virtual absence of any meaningful response to this disaster was VERY telling."
Absolutely right. They've been bleating about global warming, climate catastrophe, blah blah blah for fifty years. It's not like they haven't had time to do some PLANNING for what they predicted decades ago. Why haven't they amped up their fire fighting capabilities by ten times?
Hopefully your smoke is gone in the NE and you are getting glorious fall weather now.
Apparently they don't do controlled burns in California and Canada.
Arson.
Beautiful! I’m glad you had clear skies, great weather, and a great time!
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Beyond words to describe. They see it coming and there is no understanding, no escaping. It gives me nightmares.
wild animals know when to move...
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