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03 Aug 09 - 07:48 PM (#2693154) Subject: BS: Smoky Skies south from Alaska, Canada From: Alice I thought we had a forest fire near to us here in Montana today, as the smoke is so bad you can see it in the air a block away, the mountains partly obscured by it. I checked the news online and found the fires are actually in Alaska and Canada, sending a plume of smoke south through Montana and east to the Great Lakes. Here is a satellite photo of the plume of smoke: http://www.osdpd.noaa.gov/ml/land/hms.html Alice |
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03 Aug 09 - 08:01 PM (#2693167) Subject: RE: BS: Smoky Skies south from Alaska, Canada From: gnu Nasty! |
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03 Aug 09 - 10:19 PM (#2693236) Subject: RE: BS: Smoky Skies south from Alaska, Canada From: Ebbie I don't believe that southeast Alaska has any fires extant. The smoke we are seeing here today is coming from British Columbia and from Yukon Territory. Farther north in Alaska- in the Anchorage area and in the interior - are a number of lively fires that are sending smoke south. The one upside to our smoke is that we will have spectacular sunsets for the duration. Normally we don't have enough particulates - read 'pollutants' - in our sky to make a lot of color, but some years bacl YT had some serious fires and we had gorgeously red/orange/deep red clouds for a week. |
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03 Aug 09 - 10:25 PM (#2693239) Subject: RE: BS: Smoky Skies south from Alaska, Canada From: open mike it is smokey here too....i see quite a splotch on the map in north east calif. we had a trememdous lightning storm here on saturday night. Many of these fires resulted from that storm. here is the incident page from Cal Fire (formerly known as CDF) http://cdfdata.fire.ca.gov/incidents/incidents There are several national forests near here dealing with these fires Plumas, Lassen, Klamath, Six Rivers, http://www.fs.fed.us/r5/lassen/ http://inciweb.org/state/5/ Looks dense up your way....I recall Montana being smokey most summers.... |
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03 Aug 09 - 10:28 PM (#2693240) Subject: RE: BS: Smoky Skies south from Alaska, Canada From: open mike sometimes volcanoes cause colorful sunsets too.. in fact i remember seeing the sun set in the sky at 2 in the afternoon in L.A. from the smog... |
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04 Aug 09 - 12:04 AM (#2693271) Subject: RE: BS: Smoky Skies south from Alaska, Canada From: katlaughing My sister said, on Saturday, they have had lots of smoky skies up in North Pole, near Fairbanks. |
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04 Aug 09 - 12:46 AM (#2693276) Subject: RE: BS: Smoky Skies south from Alaska, Canada From: KT Don't like it at all. eyes are burning, smoke smell everywhere-can't even see the mountain from my house anymore. NOT good for the lungs. UGH. |
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04 Aug 09 - 02:45 AM (#2693302) Subject: RE: BS: Smoky Skies south from Alaska, Canada From: open mike wow even minnesota, michigan, iowa, and the dakotas wonder how the map data got named "GASP (GOES Aerosol/Smoke Products)" quite appropriate, eh? GASP, indeed@!! |
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04 Aug 09 - 03:39 AM (#2693323) Subject: RE: BS: Smoky Skies south from Alaska, Canada From: Ebbie On tonight's walk with my dog I saw the moon as red as I've ever seen it, I think. Plus the smoke and haze have made the night much darker than normal for this time of year. At 10:00 it was actually dark. The whole thing reminded me forcefully of 'The Road'. I have a feeling that I'll never forget that book. |
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04 Aug 09 - 09:14 AM (#2693456) Subject: RE: BS: Smoky Skies south from Alaska, Canada From: Alice oooooh The Road. I listened to it on tape while driving for my job. It was chilling. |
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04 Aug 09 - 11:06 AM (#2693508) Subject: RE: BS: Smoky Skies south from Alaska, Canada From: Ebbie They're making a movie on it, Alice. Robert Duvall is supposed to be in it. A Mudcatter told that its release has been postponed from the previous October date. I don't know if I'll go see it. As bleak but riveting as the book is I'm afraid the movie won't create the same atmosphere. Heaven knows, I don't want it to be more bleak and riveting. :) Speaking of the book, I'm glad that it didn't go in for the obvious ending but, just to myself, I pretend that in the end they find a tiny sprig of green grass. |
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04 Aug 09 - 11:18 AM (#2693516) Subject: RE: BS: Smoky Skies south from Alaska, Canada From: 3refs The powers that be are saying this is the worst year ever for fires in BC. Sunday alone, they had 169 new fires. Not positive, but I think they've brought in Firefighters from every Province! |
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04 Aug 09 - 12:33 PM (#2693567) Subject: RE: BS: Smoky Skies south from Alaska, Canada From: Alice Ebbie, when the father and son left the underground fallout shelter that they found stocked with all the supplies, I was thinking NO! NO! NO! Don't go back out there on THE ROAD again!!! |
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04 Aug 09 - 04:02 PM (#2693739) Subject: RE: BS: Smoky Skies south from Alaska, Canada From: Don Firth It looks like the Puget Sound basin (where I live--Seattle) has escaped it so far. But all we need is a little change of breeze. . . . Don Firth |
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04 Aug 09 - 05:05 PM (#2693772) Subject: RE: BS: Smoky Skies south from Alaska, Canada From: Q (Frank Staplin) Rain in Calgary has dispelled the smoke odor and the reddish tint to daylight which resulted from BC fires. The rain also welcome because rainfall has been below average here. |
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04 Aug 09 - 08:29 PM (#2693905) Subject: RE: BS: Smoky Skies south from Alaska, Canada From: Ebbie I had the same reaction about the fallout shelter, Alice, but of course I remembered that they had a destination- as undefined as it was. They had to leave. I just hope other people happened upon that same shelter. :) What a book. |
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04 Aug 09 - 09:17 PM (#2693915) Subject: RE: BS: Smoky Skies south from Alaska, Canada From: Q (Frank Staplin) Adding to a post above, firefighters come from all over to help out. One of the teams working in western Canada comes from the Indian pueblos of New Mexico. They have quite a history of fighting fires, as do other American Indian firefighter groups. Fire Warriors |
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04 Aug 09 - 10:32 PM (#2693933) Subject: RE: BS: Smoky Skies south from Alaska, Canada From: Ebbie It hasn't been nearly as smokey in Juneau today. It's hazy but not it is not obviously smoke. I don't know why the difference. |