More Evacuations In BC
The CBC reports on evacuations in Fintry and Lillooet.
The Terrace Mountain fire near Okanagan Lake has burned 7520 hectares [29 square miles] and the winds are making it a threat to Fintry. Although the fire was 90% contained, the winds have pushed it in a new direction.
To the southwest the Mount McLean fire is encroaching on Lillooet and required evacuations there. The fire has consumed about 2650 hectares [10 square miles]. It is still uncontained because of the terrain.
The BC forest service dealing with 88 active wildfires at at the moment, with priority given to those near the settled areas of the province.
The CBC says “There have been almost 2,100 fires so far this season, scorching about 550 square kilometres [212 square miles] of forest. The vast majority were caused by lightning.”
The CBC Fire Map. Despite what the text at the top says about when it was updated, it doesn’t ever seem to be more than a day late, and new fires are usually posted within hours. I think they ignore the date at the top and concentrate on putting the fires on the map.
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These freaky storms with lightning are a little scary. Quite a number of fires in CA earlier were started by lightning. I think we had about 600 lightning started fires going at the same time.
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There are heat advisories and fire weather warnings in Oregon and Washington, so we stand to have the same problems without the ability to borrow resources from Canada.
Eastern California and Nevada also have fire weather warnings.
We call what we are experiencing now…”earthquake weather” (not that it is based in any reality) But…looks like Baja got whacked with 4 earthquakes this morning..including a 6.8er. No major delveloped areas..mostly surfer territory…but still. They felt aftershocks in AZ.
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I just posted it, and the USGS is now saying 6.9. The San Andreas has been making a lot of noise lately, which is making seismologists nervous.