Donivanp
Colonel
Hey, it's SE Texas, could be hotter (Phenix or Death Valley) seems there are cooler places, ( North Pole Antartica) but what cha gonna do. 96°F today 97° tomorrow.
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Viking1066
Brigadier General
Raining. As I can attest to as I got soaked waiting for the police to get my 17 year old for her disorderly conduct.
MiTasol
Major
What did you do to get so lucky? Sooooo much winning makes the rest of us jealous.
Viking1066
Brigadier General
next I will find one of those new $100 dollar bills!
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Very smoky and scary up here. We are back to fires -- they are new, they are growing and they are close. Fires 10 miles north, and 5 miles west. Some sizeable evacuations but they are all a bit north of us. Big fires 75 miles south in Spokane Washington. Airplanes and helicopters all over. At least it's cooler today but the wind is howling -- not a good thing at times like this.
Donivanp
Colonel
My eldest sister used to live in Spokane, a shame what's happening there.
Checkertail20
Airman 1st Class
- 233
- Aug 14, 2024
Very hot and the sky is smokey but we suppose to get rain in a few days.
GrauGeist
Generalfeldmarschall zur Luftschiff Abteilung
It's been averaging 105° (40.5C) or more daily and looks to continue like this through the next week.
Last week, it peaked at 113° (45C) and with that high temp came the smoke drifting down out of the north and blanketed the area.
Last week, it peaked at 113° (45C) and with that high temp came the smoke drifting down out of the north and blanketed the area.
Donivanp
Colonel
Sorry to hear. Not only is that hot but the fires seem to have exploded over the past few years.
GrauGeist
Generalfeldmarschall zur Luftschiff Abteilung
We have been extremely fortunate this year and the going joke is "everyone is leaving California, even the fires".
Joking aside, the Redding area has always been known for it extreme heat, but with low humidity, it's really not that bad - you have to make sure to stay hydrated, though.
Donivanp
Colonel
My uncle worked as a custodian at a college there. We used to come down on summer vacation to visit. Almost got a ticket from CHP there on my way to Oakland when I shipped out to Guam. Ah fond memories.
MiTasol
Major
Europe has bad fires but even so Canada makes the German headlines. All you people there keep safe.
www.dw.com
Canada: British Columbia declares emergency as fires spread
More than 20,000 people have been forced from their homes by out-of-control wildfires in Canada's British Columbia, where 105 blazes are currently burning.
www.dw.com
Yep, that's us. It smells like a badly run campground outside, but my town does not have any alerts happening even though the fires around us are still burning. What remains frightening is how suddenly and how fast these things can blow up and become all consuming monsters. There's one eating houses near Kelowna B C that gave people literally minutes to get out. Scary stuff...
A4K
Brigadier General
A 'like' doesn't seem like the right thing for such news, but I hope everyone in the firezones is ok. A house can be replaced, but not a life.
Viking1066
Brigadier General
Thunderstorms and rain for the day.
Clear and sunny. Around 28C/82F…
MIflyer
Captain
Got up to 95F today, according to the local airport AWOS. Relaxing on the back porch with a book was not feasible because the wind was out of the west and as a result the usual cooling sea breeze was not present. But around 1700 we unexpectedly received a blessing in the form of a mild thunderstorm that cooled things off and provided a small amount of rain.
We've been having temperatures near triple digits (38 C) with low humidity, 8% or so and plenty of range fires: two just north of Reno that will probably combine into one of about 60,000 acres (27,000+ HA) and there are still some just north east of Las Vegas (aka Lost Wages)but yesterday we had a real frog strangling gully washer of a rainstorm. It only lasted a couple of hours and dropped 1-2" (2.5-5 cm)but the wind was gusting way past 50mph (80kph). Living in the mountains, particularly in the desert, that means flash floods and/orsheet flooding. Driving back from the store (completely soaked) the streets were virtual rivers and fast moving at that. A few minutes into the storm and the water was up to the floorboards of my truck at some intersections. We went from heat warnings to flood/flash flood warnings in an hour.
Checkertail20
Airman 1st Class
- 233
- Aug 14, 2024
Has cooled down and we have gotten some rain which we need due to a huge forest fire nearby.
Update on Nevada fires near me.
While our problems seem minor compared to the terrible catastrophes hitting the mid-west and east they are severe to us. I don't mean to minimize what anyone else is going through!
"Bug" fire now at 71,700+ ac (32,600ha) and 4% contained.
"Stallion" fire at 34k ac (15,500ha) zero % contained.
US Hwy 395, the road north from Reno to CA and points north is closed.
An unknown number of homes/buildings destroyed and folks evacuated.
While our problems seem minor compared to the terrible catastrophes hitting the mid-west and east they are severe to us. I don't mean to minimize what anyone else is going through!
"Bug" fire now at 71,700+ ac (32,600ha) and 4% contained.
"Stallion" fire at 34k ac (15,500ha) zero % contained.
US Hwy 395, the road north from Reno to CA and points north is closed.
An unknown number of homes/buildings destroyed and folks evacuated.
