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This is troubling, and becoming ever more widespread. In Seattle people jokingly say we have a fifth season now, after summer comes the smoke season, when the d
by rnk 3y ago
This is troubling, and becoming ever more widespread. In Seattle people jokingly say we have a fifth season now, after summer comes the smoke season, when the dry end of summer leads to forest fires that come with smoke hitting us, and then after that comes the fall rains that end it.
- barbazoo 3y agoSame here in BC I'd say. This is the earliest start of the season since a while. We're already past last year's accumulated burnt area and approaching 2021 levels which was a crazy year for wildfires. And it's June 7, it's crazy. https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/wildfires-outlook-forecast-1.6865791 https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/wildfires-outlook-forecast-...
- rnk 3y agoThe Seattle times reported that we were 6 inches below average in recent rainfall and had the driest May on record since 1966. So it's likely we'll have more fires in the fall. Normally we have moderate weather because the wind blows from the coast to the east. But when we have a low pressure event, it sucks the wind from BC and Eastern Washington toward the west. Even when we don't have smoke here in the concentrated Seattle area, it's affecting millions of people across the state and the country. All those people east of the Cascades are getting it worse. Added link: https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/weather/western-wa-fire-conditions-intensify-as-heat-and-dry-weather-continue/ https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/weather/western-wa...