Massive fire in NorCal causing flight delays and bad air Aug 2020->
Aug 21, 2020, 3:04 pm
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Lots of evacuation orders. Lots of vineyards in harm's way. Even UCSC has been evacuated.
It must be something to see the 747 tanker flying at low altitude in the firefight.
https://experience.arcgis.com/experi...1snzpGrKPZWZwg
Current Sonoma Co. evacuation areas. There are also some Napa/Lake/Solano evacuations, and substantial evacuations in the Santa Cruz / San Mateo regions close to the coast.
It must be something to see the 747 tanker flying at low altitude in the firefight.
https://experience.arcgis.com/experi...1snzpGrKPZWZwg
Current Sonoma Co. evacuation areas. There are also some Napa/Lake/Solano evacuations, and substantial evacuations in the Santa Cruz / San Mateo regions close to the coast.
Aug 21, 2020, 5:31 pm
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Yup. And winds shifted so air is now horrible in our neighborhood. Not that anyone is traveling but this is definitely not a good time to visit California.
Aug 21, 2020, 6:25 pm
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The Woodward Fire southwest of Point Reyes looks like very bad news for SF Bay Area air quality. I'm not even sure they're going to try to fight that one unless it gets close to Olema or Bolinas. Northwesterly winds are blowing so much smoke from there to here. That might go on for several days.
Aug 21, 2020, 6:28 pm
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Aug 21, 2020, 6:30 pm
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The Woodward Fire southwest of Point Reyes looks like very bad news for SF Bay Area air quality. I'm not even sure they're going to try to fight that one unless it gets close to Olema or Bolinas. Northwesterly winds are blowing so much smoke from there to here. That might go on for several days.
Aug 21, 2020, 6:35 pm
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2 of the NorCal fires have burned 200k+ acres as of Friday evening and are now ranked in the top 5 largest fires in history of the Bay Area. More lightning may arrive Monday thanks in part to the tropical storms coming up from the south.
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nah, but a major PG&E executive lives there so we we are PG&E Zone 50 and there will never be a rotating power outage or safety shutdown here. Though the power went out 2x last weekend due to an old transformer that always blows when temps >100. Quickly fixed so it’s hard to complain
nah, but a major PG&E executive lives there so we we are PG&E Zone 50 and there will never be a rotating power outage or safety shutdown here. Though the power went out 2x last weekend due to an old transformer that always blows when temps >100. Quickly fixed so it’s hard to complain
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Aug 21, 2020, 11:37 pm
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I see the governor has requested Canadian and Australian firefighters today. Is there any scheduled service still running between the U.S. and Australia? I know Qantas kept some 787s behind in Australia, in case something comes up, but they're not running any U.S. scheduled service until probably next summer. Maybe RAAF or USAF aircraft instead?
Aug 22, 2020, 12:21 am
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Big Basin Redwoods State Park has been consumed by wildfire. 
Aug 22, 2020, 12:29 am
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I see the governor has requested Canadian and Australian firefighters today. Is there any scheduled service still running between the U.S. and Australia? I know Qantas kept some 787s behind in Australia, in case something comes up, but they're not running any U.S. scheduled service until probably next summer. Maybe RAAF or USAF aircraft instead?
Aug 22, 2020, 9:52 pm
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Thank you, winds! I don't know how long this will last, but very little if any smoke in the air as of this afternoon in Berkeley.
Aug 22, 2020, 11:53 pm
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Lots of evacuation orders. Lots of vineyards in harm's way. Even UCSC has been evacuated.
It must be something to see the 747 tanker flying at low altitude in the firefight.
https://experience.arcgis.com/experi...1snzpGrKPZWZwg
Current Sonoma Co. evacuation areas. There are also some Napa/Lake/Solano evacuations, and substantial evacuations in the Santa Cruz / San Mateo regions close to the coast.
It must be something to see the 747 tanker flying at low altitude in the firefight.
https://experience.arcgis.com/experi...1snzpGrKPZWZwg
Current Sonoma Co. evacuation areas. There are also some Napa/Lake/Solano evacuations, and substantial evacuations in the Santa Cruz / San Mateo regions close to the coast.
Aug 23, 2020, 11:02 am
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It is returning - not bad earlier today, despite the slight orange tint in the morning overcast, but the stench is returning. (Perhaps in the rarefied air of your elevation, you will be spared.)
Aug 23, 2020, 2:49 pm
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I think you and I are pretty much in the same soup. At some point early this morning the smoke returned, and it's still here now. We don't have it as bad as further inland, but it's unpleasant.
Aug 23, 2020, 3:20 pm
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It's really bad right now in Sacramento. Though we had the windows open early this morning
