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Wonderland. I saw a squirrel passed out in the middle of the sidewalk, possibly dead, from dehydration or the heat
I lived in Pearblossom, in the Mojave Desert area of California, for over 10 years and every summer squireels would sprawl out flat like pancakes on the cement to cool off, It always made me laugh to see them like that.
Broken pieces of glass, which are eveywhere, can intensify the heat of sunlight just like a magnifying glass and start fires. Also twiglets and small branches brushing against each other can start fires. Weird, but it happens.
A couple of years back we had a very strange storm blow up in the Brecon Beacons mountain range (I live in the foothills of the brecons) There were suddenly 2 lightning flashes, as you say bolts out of the blue. I didn't even have time between them to close down the computer. Having got it closed down there was nothing else, no rain, no storm anything. Found out later that bothe the lightning bolts had been strikes, and each of them caused a fatality. https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/sep/03/lightning-strikes-killed-brecon-beacon-walkers-inquest-rules
Chohole,
For some reason I thought you lived in Paris, France.
What a refreshing relief that no one blamed the two tragic fatal lightning strikes on Putin.
...heat wave finally broke here in Portland tonight after one more day around 90°. Currently 64° (some 12 - 15° cooler than it's been at this time for the last 10 days). There is even a chance for some actual water from the sky on Friday and the beginning of next week.
I didn't. That area I was in was known to be part of a tornado heavy area with floods too (not with extreme frequency though) but a hurricane and an ice storm of that magnitute was in historical times in that area unknown. Now I am in an area with much rare tornados, rarer ice storms, rarer floods and all that about 150 southeast, however the weather seems to be changing to make those more frequent but lucky for me I'm in a good location even locally to avoid all that. Even the Smokies about 150 miles further southeast had giant fires like never before. The wildfires in wooded areas though a big contributing factor is that hardwood trees are allowed to be stripped from those areas leaving mostly only software and brush which is like a giant tinder box for forest fires to start.
I had posted I was surprised the states who were helping had not been identified, and thought Florida would pitch in since everyone helped us when we got hit with the hurricane clobbering the Florida keys and the Florida peninsula. Well, our help is on the way. Go Florida and Georgia! And kudos to Michigan, Wisconsin, and those East Coast states. That's a LONG way to travel to help.
The USFS and NPS firemen around here basically only train here to wind up working out west all the time. There is occasional serious fire here but it is rare to have one like in the Smokeys a couple years back. Starting pay is about $13 an hour with only seasonal work, i.e. the fire season out west, being the season, so it's not much motivation to sign up for employment with them. I've read that they often still have to use "volunteer firefighters" via work release programs for well behaved prisoners from the prisons in California because there is always a shortage of firefighters out west. Here, we actually have quite a few volunteer firefighters that serve locally.
Yeah, there may be fires and earthquakes here, but every state has something.
Me, I prefer to live in a place where most of the time I can walk outside without gasping for breath in unbearable heat or wearing special clothing to deal with the horrible cold, or without possibly losing my life slipping on icy streets.
Shangri-La?
Most of the fires locally have been person-caused. A mountain bike, camping in undesignated places, a sparking transformer and kids playing with fireworks. I support more education and stronger penalties for humans who cause these accidents... there has been a pretty big uptick in these types of issues lately.
I'm reading that there's now something called a Firenado...
That is just freaking terrifying.
Not new, they've been around forever due to winds generated in large fires. They're actually called "fire whirls", but I guess "firenado" sounds cooler and generates more clicks. They probably happen in most large wildfires, and if you've ever seen coverage on the news you've probably seen them. Major examples from long ago:
An extreme example of a fire tornado is the 1923 Great Kantō earthquake in Japan which ignited a large city-sized firestorm and produced a gigantic fire whirl that killed 38,000 people in fifteen minutes in the Hifukusho-Ato region of Tokyo.
Another example is the numerous large fire whirls (some tornadic) that developed after lightning struck an oil storage facility near San Luis Obispo, California on 7 April 1926, several of which produced significant structural damage well away from the fire, killing two. Many whirlwinds were produced by the four-day-long firestorm coincident with conditions that produced severe thunderstorms, in which the larger fire whirls carried debris 5 kilometers away
Something can be terrifying and awesome, though, right? I mean if my home was destroyed by fire, I'd be bummed out, but if it was destroyed by a firenado, I'd have to think that was at least a little bit cool.
Also, I can't be the only guy who saw the thread title and came here expecting a Johnny Carson style joke, right? I'll try one.
The fires in California are really bad.
Audience: How bad are they?
They're so bad, we haven't seen this much unwanted heat buildup in Santa Clara since Nvidia released the Maxwell Architecture. (ducks)
Ok, I won't quit my day job. (sigh)
Up here in Ohio we have both extremes. In winter it has gotten down to -25F (not including the wind chill) and in the summer up to 110F (not including the real feel)
Frank: Yeah, I'm originally from eastern Massachusetts and lived for a while in Pittsburgh. That's an annoying climate zone.
I was visiting folks recently and while here in San Jose it was in the high 70s and mid 80s, in eastern MA it was high 90s and SUPER HUMID. Ugh.
And then in winter, piles of snow and ice.
Bleh.
We haven't had a lot of snow over the last couple yrs like we use to get back in the 80's and 90's. about 4 yrs ago we were getting snow almost the entire winter and had 3 foot of accumulation most of the winder. We get hit with the lake effect snow from Erie.
Even though I only lived in central Appalachians for high school and college & moved away for a couple of decades the weather here is still the same mostly except 90s was almost as rare as below zero in high school & college but both have been more frequent although not common or average since I moved back.
In the autumns the leaves seem to be missing the extra brightness of color most years and just all sort of quickly change to a dull yellow then brown and drop. The colors used to be almost always much brighter and more varied from yellows to oranges to reds but now I find myself trying to plan my yard trees to get those colors because I never see them out & about so tyically. Logging permits taking all the hardwood varieties (supplying all the bright colors) and leaving softwood tinderbox forests behind is most likely culprit.
My family is from Ohio, but I was born in Cali. It’s a beautiful state but cannot live there now. Ohio is ranked high for ozone and is ranked of the worst states to live in if you have asthma... too bad... great place...
It is sad how routine these fires have become, and horrible weather in general. Over here where I am, aside from a couple of decent rain free days, it has rained every day for two weeks straight. I wish I could send some of that water your way. There has been flooding, on and off. Where I am located, I am elevated enough that it would need a biblical flood to reach. But in areas around me, there have been swift water rescues in places that have never needed that sort of thing before. Two people were swept away by flash flooding, and sadly they were not found until over two weeks later.
Yes, the Ohio Valley is well known to be bad for allergies. I used to get asthma attacks when baling hay in autumn. And my eyes still burn at certain times of the year even now. If you look at a map from tree cover density in the United States you'll see it's highest in the Appalachians although the Pacific Northwest might seem to complete with all the rain they don't. And Kentucky, the state I live in, despite being somewhat small compared to most states and being landlocked, has more miles of navigable waters than any state but Alaska. It is damp and wet here so allergies abound.
Wish it was here. Drought for 2 months now, and they say it may last for another 6 weeks. Farmers are desperate - expecting the worst harvest in 100 years.
Sea breeze is best for allergies and asthma unless you are allergic to something it contains. So agreed north coast is not comparable. I’ve succeeded too oddly in overcoming all but one allergy. Dust mites... that is my bane. But ground ozone such as exist in Ohio is bad for everyone but worse in summer. Too bad more cannot be done but topography of the land and pollution makes it hard I’m sure.
My asthma and allergies are caused by mold spores that happen certain times of fall but I refuse the medicines as worse than the allergies. You are right though, when we lived near Hanna Park on the Atlantic I had no allergies but I enjoy gardening, botany, and wildlife too much to leave here but I do enjoy the ocean alot too (although I also find the ocean scary having been both rescued from undertows and having rescued people from undertows, sharks, stingrays, ...but then again bear and snakes seem to have had populsation explosions here in the Appalachians so caution is need everywhere - I actually am always a bit scared nowadays just going on simple hikes because of the number of bears - Yogi Bear & BooBoo they are not!
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