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Comments on: Guiberson Fire [Ventura County] https://whynow.dumka.us/2009/09/22/guiberson-fire-ventura-county/ On-line Opinion Magazine...OK, it's a blog Wed, 23 Sep 2009 05:34:22 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 By: Bryan https://whynow.dumka.us/2009/09/22/guiberson-fire-ventura-county/comment-page-1/#comment-49086 Wed, 23 Sep 2009 05:34:22 +0000 http://whynow.dumka.us/?p=11408#comment-49086 In reply to Jack K., the Grumpy Forester.

There is a link between the High currently over Colorado and the three Lows off of the SoCal coast that is setting up this wind pattern and pulling the warmer, and dryer air into the Pacific Northwest. It is also reacting with a Low in the Gulf that has been feeding the moist air for the floods in Alabama and Georgia.

The Tumblebug has been going on for a while, as has the huge fires in Alaska.

I got to know the Cascades up close and personal hiking through them at survival school outside of Spokane. It was March and warm and dry are not terms that described the conditions I dealt with. It is the farthest I have ever traveled on snow shoes, as we got two feet of new snow the day after we arrived.

It’s shaping up that every forest on the West Coast is a fire waiting to happen. Between the weird weather and insect infestations I glad I have memories of when they were tall and green.

]]> By: Jack K., the Grumpy Forester https://whynow.dumka.us/2009/09/22/guiberson-fire-ventura-county/comment-page-1/#comment-49085 Wed, 23 Sep 2009 04:52:26 +0000 http://whynow.dumka.us/?p=11408#comment-49085 …and, in an interesting side note, we have had fires in Ashland and Medford that caused some evacuations. Along with all that, it is only now as darkness settles that I can no longer see out my western window the convection column from the Tumblebug Complex, which is only a few miles the other side of the Cascade crest from land that officially matters to me…

Fall fires in SoCal aren’t unexpected, but up here in the PacNW the temp’s are currently in the low 90’s with relatively humidity under 20% and gusty winds. Strange weather; strange times….

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