[FRIAM] overshoot day

[Roger Critchlow]

My sister has a fire up in the Okanogan valley this week, the Eagle Bluff
Fire, which blew north into BC.

A step-niece, who is working the fire lines in Washington state this
summer, recommends the "Watch Duty" app for tracking wildfires.

Watch Duty is the only wildfire mapping and alert app powered by real
> people giving you real-time information vetted by trained professionals,
> not robots. All other apps only rely on government alerts which can be
> hours late or flat out non-existent.
>
> Watch Duty is run by active and retired firefighters, dispatchers, first
> responders, and reporters who monitor radio scanners in your area around
> the clock to bring you up-to-the-minute life saving information.


I installed it on Sunday and it prompted me to update when I opened it a
few minutes ago.

-- rec --


On Fri, Aug 4, 2023 at 12:42 PM cody dooderson <d00d3rs0n at gmail.com> wrote:

> Forgive me for nitpicking but there have been some huge fires in western
> Canada this year. For instance, this fire was 1.4 million acres
> https://www.simtable.com/apps/fireProgression/output2023/BritishColumbia_G80280.html
> .
> I doubt the smoke from that blew down to the bay area though.
>
>
>
>
> _ Cody Smith _
> cody at simtable.com
>
>
> On Wed, Aug 2, 2023 at 6:15 PM Stephen Guerin <stephen.guerin at simtable.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Yesterday's microburst from Los Alamos over Otowi Smith's Hacienda with a
>> rainbow pointing to the 6' leprechauns yurt down canyon on the Rio Grande
>> :-)
>>
>>
>> https://node.redfish.com/Documents/cody/timeLapse/output/LosAlamos1/2023/214/LosAlamos1_2023_08_02_00_00.mp4
>>
>> On Wed, Aug 2, 2023, 3:24 PM Steve Smith <sasmyth at swcp.com> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> On 8/2/23 2:55 PM, Marcus Daniels wrote:
>>>
>>> I just noticed it was overshoot day, and just after the hottest July
>>> ever recorded.    Yay!
>>>
>>>
>>> I'll be mixing up a nice ice-cold (luke warm?) cocktail of shame with
>>> just a splash of Cassandrafruede (reminiscent of Absinthe?) at sundown
>>> today (spectacular when orange-tinted from the wildfire smoke and dust
>>> blown from drought-denuded areas)... While I pop the ice-cubes from the
>>> tray I'll remember the recent factoid from someone (McKibben?) that the
>>> annual carbon budget of most people in the third world is roughly that of
>>> an American's refrigerator with an Ice-Maker or a Brit's electric Kettle
>>> for twice-daily tea.  If I had AC I'd turn it down to it's coldest setting
>>> to spite my neighbor by belching superheated air into their AC air handler
>>> intakes... but alas I only have adobe walls and brick floors and lots of
>>> windows to absorb night-time coolth...   no fun in that!  <ahhh... the
>>> lingering aftertaste of Cassandrafruede!>
>>>
>>> The wycked hot here in NM finally broke somewhat for us yesterday with
>>> an hour of rain like the "good ole days" when every afternoon had a
>>> rainstorm starting in July to cool off the second half of the summer.   The
>>> crew down in the Bosque building a pumping station to move the water pumped
>>> from the Colorado Basin to the Rio Grande (San Juan to Chama) is busy
>>> belching diesel exhaust plumes and  throwing adobe-bricklets from their
>>> tires when they pull out on the highway to become ad-hoc speed control
>>> bumps for the Los Alamos commuters usually roar by at 80 in the 55mph
>>> "safety zone" morning and night.
>>>
>>> All the world is a circle?  Or is it a donut?  I think maybe I'm
>>> channeling Terry Pratchett?
>>>
>>> Cheers!
>>>
>>>
>>> https://www.overshootday.org/
>>>
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