Drought for the west

[Nameless Range]

Helena has only received this much rain in a single day in August 8 times since 1938. Another inch or so is predicted. Western Montana is sitting a lot prettier than it was a week ago. That said, eastern Montana largely missed out, and eastern MT is hurting. A lot can change, but I think this will dampen the remainder of fire season in a third of the state.

 

[MarvB]

Damn another mountain community that I used to go through in Cali gone! Guess Grizzly Flats is no more, Caldor Fire now 55,000 acres in first two days

Caldor Fire doubles in size as more than 5,000 El Dorado County residents evacuate

From Tuesday evening to Wednesday evening, the fire more than doubled in size from 30,000...

www.sfchronicle.com

 

[antlerradar]

No rain yet in at my place in eastern Montana. Temp's are in the 60's . I am not acclimated to that, Might have to get the winter coat out.

 

[BigHornRam]

Damn another mountain community that I used to go through in Cali gone! Guess Grizzly Flats is no more, Caldor Fire now 55,000 acres in first two days

Caldor Fire doubles in size as more than 5,000 El Dorado County residents evacuate

From Tuesday evening to Wednesday evening, the fire more than doubled in size from 30,000...

www.sfchronicle.com

Another human caused fire in California?

 

[MarvB]

Another human caused fire in California?

Not 100% sure Paul though it appears to have started near a campground area so I wouldn’t doubt it.
Pretth serious plume from nearby Placerville

 

[Irrelevant]

I've been checking in on the satellite feed at least once a day and have been really surprised to see that northern CA gets pretty strong winds from all directions pretty regularly. Around the Dixie fire it was a hard west wind two days ago not a moderate northern wind. I was trying to think about how that might affect how successful the suppression efforts are. I've noticed for the most part all our fires here in WA have remained just fractions of the size and growth that the CA fires see. I could see where those changes CA winds push the fire back on itself and help the cause, but also could play havoc on trying to mobilize resources to various sides of an active fire.

I know it's be posted before but: https://www.star.nesdis.noaa.gov/GOES/sector_band.php?sat=G17&sector=pnw&band=GEOCOLOR&length=24

 

[BigHornRam]

Feels almost like September.

View attachment 191717

Yes it does!

 

[Westxhunter]

We've received just under 9 inches of rains since June 15th out here in El Paso, TX.... These mountains are supposed to be DESERT....

 

[Fremont15]

Another awesome rain storm in central and western Wyoming! Things are looking good around here.

 

[Oak]

29% of the precipitation we've received since January 1 has come in the last 22 hours.

 

[Oak]

29% of the precipitation we've received since January 1 has come in the last 22 hours.

I should qualify that statement and point out that we still haven't received 4" of precip since January 1 and normal is 5.26".

 

[jlmatthew]

Just returned from Craig, WOW is it dry! gets greener the closer you get to Steamboat

 

[antlerradar]

Still just a enough to get rid of the dust in Ashland.

 

[Southern Elk]

I’m sitting here listening to the rain for the 3rd night in a row. Things are looking better at least for the short term in SW MT.

 

[timmy]

Still just a enough to get rid of the dust in Ashland.

The holy grail of Montana might hit a little different this year when the crowds show up. She’s dry. Hopefully some restrictions come in ASAP.

 

[brockel]

Earlier this week north of town. Luckily the wind switched in the middle of the night and blew the fire back on itself. I think this one got around 6900 acres. 0.7” of rain yesterday with more forecasted today and Sunday finally

 

[midwesthunter]

I hunted Mon & Tue in SE MT this week, it was the driest I have ever seen.

 

[NECALI]

The Dixie fire here in N. CA. Is a monster. A few nights ago part of it came over the Diamond Mtns. just east of Janesville. It came over at the worst time as the thermals were strong and it pushed an arm of it down to the valley floor in a matter of minutes. I was watching it from my house and couldn’t believe how fast it moved. Lots of homes gone. The past two days they threw everything but the kitchen sink at a spot going back up a Canyon on the West side of this arm. I was amazed that all the retardant and water dumped on it didn’t stop it for two days. It didn’t grow in size or move very fast, but just kept at it. Looks like it’s still burning at that spot this morning.

 

[Oak]

The Dixie fire here in N. CA. Is a monster. A few nights ago part of it came over the Diamond Mtns. just east of Janesville. It came over at the worst time as the thermals were strong and it pushed an arm of it down to the valley floor in a matter of minutes. I was watching it from my house and couldn’t believe how fast it moved. Lots of homes gone. The past two days they threw everything but the kitchen sink at a spot going back up a Canyon on the West side of this arm. I was amazed that all the retardant and water dumped on it didn’t stop it for two days. It didn’t grow in size or move very fast, but just kept at it. Looks like it’s still burning at that spot this morning.

Here’s what it looked like. Two hour time lapse. Dixie just surpassed 700,000 acres.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1427500924306477057

 

[MarvB]

The thing is raging Terry, currently 700,630 acres and over 1,094 square miles. That area area Janesville and Sunsanville I know very well and its going to hard to get ahead of....plus probably another 18,000 people living in that immediate area. Don't know what its going to take (other than winter) to put this monster out.