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― obsidian crocogolem (sleeve), Saturday, 1 April 2023 01:57 (one year ago) link
thread is about wildfires not flooding but i need to put this somewhere
29" SWE. As Utah officially surpasses the estimated 1952 levels, those concerned with flooding can learn more about risks and other state resources by going to the @UtahDPS emergency management page: https://t.co/gfkjF2yFlE #utwx pic.twitter.com/jHQQ62QUXr— NRCS Utah (@NRCS_Utah) April 4, 2023
― ꙮ (map), Tuesday, 4 April 2023 21:12 (one year ago) link
All the rainfall/storms will definitely lead to more fuel by the summertime - grasses and underbrush, and fallen trees and limbs
But the rain may have helped some of the drought-stricken pines
― Andy the Grasshopper, Tuesday, 4 April 2023 23:56 (one year ago) link
doubt i'll see this much snow again in my lifetime.
― ꙮ (map), Wednesday, 19 April 2023 21:39 (one year ago) link
hope you are not in a danger area for snow melt flooding
― that's not my post, Wednesday, 19 April 2023 22:27 (one year ago) link
i think we're far enough away from the creek. we'll see how bad it gets.
― ꙮ (map), Wednesday, 19 April 2023 22:35 (one year ago) link
Canada too, although maybe that’s a different thread.
― CeeLô Borges (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 7 June 2023 00:25 (one year ago) link
this'll do for now
we've already had two in Oregon within 50 miles of us
― broken breakbeat (sleeve), Wednesday, 7 June 2023 00:42 (one year ago) link
Quite visible and smellable in Brooklyn this evening
― realistic pillow (Jon not Jon), Wednesday, 7 June 2023 00:42 (one year ago) link
I forgot to look up but my daughter told me about the big red sun. And a friend of ours that hasn’t been posting recently just told me about all the smoke in Ottawa.
― CeeLô Borges (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 7 June 2023 00:57 (one year ago) link
Actually we can smell it now too here in Queens.
― CeeLô Borges (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 7 June 2023 00:59 (one year ago) link
yeah i mean it was shortsighted of me to limit this to the western us
― ꙮ (map), Wednesday, 7 June 2023 01:03 (one year ago) link
Smoke smell not quite as unpleasant as what it was in downtown Brooklyn right after 9/11 but why compare?
― CeeLô Borges (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 7 June 2023 01:04 (one year ago) link
Feeling it on my eyes. Not sure if psychosomatic, doubt it.
― CeeLô Borges (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 7 June 2023 01:09 (one year ago) link
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/toronto-ottawa-covered-smoke-wildfires-2023-06-06/
The Canadian capital of Ottawa, which neighbors Quebec, was covered in haze on Tuesday morning, with air quality in category 10+, the worst level on Environment Canada's Air Quality Health Index, indicating "very high risk".
― CeeLô Borges (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 7 June 2023 01:42 (one year ago) link
ottowa, welcome
― ꙮ (map), Wednesday, 7 June 2023 01:48 (one year ago) link
Lots of headlines saying nyc’s air quality was “the worst in the world” this morning. I’m caught a bit flat footed… not sure what to do other than close up the apartment, keep the dog walks brief and hang out inside. It’s weird how it wasn’t apparent to me walking around Chinatown all afternoon but taking the dog out an hour later was yikes.
― realistic pillow (Jon not Jon), Wednesday, 7 June 2023 02:43 (one year ago) link
I didn’t notice until this evening.
― CeeLô Borges (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 7 June 2023 02:54 (one year ago) link
ah ye, finally, been long looking forward to my first fire season wherein I have one lung
― Clay, Wednesday, 7 June 2023 07:50 (one year ago) link
Ugh, sorry.
― CeeLô Borges (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 7 June 2023 13:10 (one year ago) link
looking a little better in Montreal this morning, but the last two days were p depressing (not as bad as Ottawa though)
― rob, Wednesday, 7 June 2023 13:39 (one year ago) link
This explains why the early mornings have looked so apocalyptic here of late.
― The Triumphant Return of Bernard & Stubbs (Raymond Cummings), Wednesday, 7 June 2023 13:50 (one year ago) link
Sund4r told me he drove back from Toronto to Ottawa the other day and basically was welcomed in the middle by giant cloud of black smoke into which he drove. Had to wear a mask in his car. And then in his apartment.
― CeeLô Borges (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 7 June 2023 13:59 (one year ago) link
Well now it’s drifted down to DC.
― Crabber B. Munson (Boring, Maryland), Wednesday, 7 June 2023 14:26 (one year ago) link
Air quality in Ottawa back up to 10+, highest possible risk.
― CeeLô Borges (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 7 June 2023 14:44 (one year ago) link
It was surreal walking around my neighborhood yesterday (in Montreal), just smelled like light campfire smoke, so not really unpleasant to me though obviously unhealthy. Today seems less bad so far at least, I guess the bit of rain we had this night helped.
― silverfish, Wednesday, 7 June 2023 15:55 (one year ago) link
imo this blows
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Wednesday, 7 June 2023 16:10 (one year ago) link
Seems like the next plume is coming into nyc now
― realistic pillow (Jon not Jon), Wednesday, 7 June 2023 16:59 (one year ago) link
it's pretty weird to watch the rest of the country experience our Oregon summer world, been like this on and off here for 4-5 years now
― broken breakbeat (sleeve), Wednesday, 7 June 2023 17:36 (one year ago) link
pro tip: get P100 masks, you want those small particulates filtered
We have N95s aplenty…
― realistic pillow (Jon not Jon), Wednesday, 7 June 2023 17:37 (one year ago) link
ha yes, everyone does now, but do try to get some P100s if you need to be outside in it for an extended period
― broken breakbeat (sleeve), Wednesday, 7 June 2023 17:49 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1FzbmpFyaw
― CeeLô Borges (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 7 June 2023 17:54 (one year ago) link
Is it even worth bothering with a surgical mask, as some are doing?
― CeeLô Borges (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 7 June 2023 17:55 (one year ago) link
I don't think so. I think you need at least an N95 to filter out particulates?
― rob, Wednesday, 7 June 2023 17:56 (one year ago) link
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/07/us/masks-wildfire-smoke-air-quality.html
Went out to get groceries just now (picked the wrong time but I've been sick all week) and felt like the dog in the "This is fine" cartoon.
― il lavoro mi rovina la giornata (PBKR), Wednesday, 7 June 2023 19:02 (one year ago) link
― broken breakbeat (sleeve), Wednesday, June 7, 2023 6:36 PM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink
i wouldn't wish smokey air on anyone, but yeah, from a western pov it's a little jarring to see "this sucks baaad" in 2023. not like in some perverse bragging tone or anything. just a note that many parts of the country that don't have many posters to this message board have been living this reality for quite some time. my sympathies to everyone dealing with this right now. the good news is weather patterns change and the smoke always moves somewhere else. then moves back to you. then gets worse next year.
― ꙮ (map), Wednesday, 7 June 2023 19:43 (one year ago) link
i'm super glad we'll see some media hand-wringing and rationalization about it in the coming weeks though.
― ꙮ (map), Wednesday, 7 June 2023 19:46 (one year ago) link
it does suck bad
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Wednesday, 7 June 2023 19:50 (one year ago) link
I’m in the Baltimore area. This has happened before, not pretty rarely in my memory.
(The only other time I remember it was in the Austin area a decade or so back when the city of Bastrop was on fire for weeks.)
― The Triumphant Return of Bernard & Stubbs (Raymond Cummings), Wednesday, 7 June 2023 19:53 (one year ago) link
I moved to Montreal from Oregon 9 years ago. So, I left before the real bad summers started, but I did experience fires while there, including waking up on vacation in Bend one morning to the surreal sight of midsummer snow that I realized after a confused minute was falling ash. There have also been plenty of wildfires in Quebec before this year. What's freaking me out is that it's only June
― rob, Wednesday, 7 June 2023 20:16 (one year ago) link
i've seen a fair number of westerners with thoughts along the same lines as sleeve/map and i get it, but . . . this *hasn't* happened in nyc before. (james redd could only compare it to 9/11!)
i mean, if the west coast of the usa gets hit by a hurricane sometime, that too will be very noteworthy despite the southeast getting several every summer
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 7 June 2023 20:31 (one year ago) link
I suppose maybe I could have should have lowballed and compared it to that one time NJ sent us some foul-smelling air.
― CeeLô Borges (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 7 June 2023 21:23 (one year ago) link
Yeah, FW2020 was rough. 5 of the 10 worst wildfires in the history of California (and Oregon wasn't much better).
Not only were we in COVID lockdown but also choking on dense wildfire smoke for close to 3 months. Even our indoor AQI readings were in the triple digits. Those of us with kids dealing with at-home everything and then no more going outside for fresh air made things extremely unmanageable.
https://i.imgur.com/WsuDF4n.jpg
Good luck East Coasters.
― citation needed (Steve Shasta), Wednesday, 7 June 2023 21:38 (one year ago) link
(no filter on the pic, white-balanced to the interior lighting)
It makes me think of there Las Vegas set scenes of Blade Runner 2049.
― The Triumphant Return of Bernard & Stubbs (Raymond Cummings), Wednesday, 7 June 2023 21:41 (one year ago) link
ok fine i will admit to experiencing a ~tiny~ bit of schadenfreude after spending many many years slowly accepting that smoke = summer in northern california but also: i am v sorry this is happening to you all, it super sucks & i know firsthand it becomes very depressing + scary very quickly. stay safe! stay indoors!
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 7 June 2023 22:13 (one year ago) link
Thanks. Definitely some disturbing AQIs over here in Queens, some very unhealthy and even hazardous.
― CeeLô Borges (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 7 June 2023 22:18 (one year ago) link
veg otm
― ꙮ (map), Wednesday, 7 June 2023 22:22 (one year ago) link