come2elmo
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dry as dry can be in NM this weekend...
Drought for the west
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RobertD
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Man everything about this photo screams hot dry weather
I felt hot just looking at the thumbnail picture. Yikes.Man everything about this photo screams hot dry weather
Rio Blanco county in western CO where I spent a good chunk of time this spring, lots of it in muddy creek bottoms, just went to stage 1 fire restrictions.
having a campfire in most of the inter mountain west probably has about a 2 week window now.
Nameless Range
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Montana isn't in as rough of shape as some other western states, and yet, we are seeing streamflows in the single digit percentile, if not lowest ever since we began recording for today's date. Today, we had extreme fire weather across the state with more than a couple fires blowing up, a helicopter crashing, and temperatures hotter than a jalapeno's armpit.
It's a long summer and even longer fire season and many things can change, but I wonder what things are gonna look like two months from now. It's shaping up to be wiley across the west.
It's a long summer and even longer fire season and many things can change, but I wonder what things are gonna look like two months from now. It's shaping up to be wiley across the west.
BirdManMike
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The salmonflies have started emerging on the Jellystone 2 days ago, a full 20 days earlier than normal. River is at roughly July 10 average flow with no snow left to melt.
Took off a bunchve random days to get some Beartooth lake walks in over the next 3 weeks. Doubt Im going to be up in the mountains as much as Id like later in summer due it the coming inferno.
Cleansing fire, tho, circle of life. Or something.
Took off a bunchve random days to get some Beartooth lake walks in over the next 3 weeks. Doubt Im going to be up in the mountains as much as Id like later in summer due it the coming inferno.
Cleansing fire, tho, circle of life. Or something.
BirdManMike
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It there is one boon, a smoke-filled summer may discourage some of the hordes of tourists (that I am already seeing) from becoming repeat customers.
mrcowboy
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Santa Fe NF just put in place a forest closure for a good portion of the Pecos Wilderness. Rincon Fire burning at 11,000 feet. Lots of dead fir stands in the area. Grim outlook for the summer.
Doublecluck
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Had to go down to Worland yesterday, red lodge fire was raging on the way down then another popped up to the East, maybe in the pryors or up near the crow, hard to say. Another one up near Townsend. 
Gonna be a long nasty summer at this rate.
Gonna be a long nasty summer at this rate.
SD_Prairie_Goat
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Its rough out there, current drought monitor:
rick19Kilo
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This is the no bueno! Thank you for the info.
Which region? Seems like the southwest is sucking up teams left and right.
All the Cibola districts just announced stage 2 fire restrictions along with the portion of the Kiowa Grassland that has been in stage 2 since March. Really incredible how dry the southwest is right now.
Here's where you can find the interactive streamflow map from my screenshot above. You can look at different states as well.
marksjeep
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Nice!
BirdManMike
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Hot damn. There goes the rest of my productivity for the day....
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I was out in a pretty good cross section of SW WY rangeland this week. It’s bad. The country looks and feels “agitated”.
