Drought for the west

[Wallydeuce]

15 new fires today in NM. Kachina peak had a gust hit 91mph.
Calming down now and should be over for this spring. The worst anyways. No telling on the fires til morning.
Only 2 months til rain now. Lucky I still have grass from last years monsoons.

Folks still don't believe it's the worst drought in 1200 years. Pretty easy to check with tree rings here in NM. Logs to check that are a few thousand years against in ruins.

Good lord Hank. If it ain't ants, it's flies.

Sending you and your fellow New Mexicans my best wishes.

 

[hank4elk]

60 days so far this year in extreme or severe fire weather in NM.
Breezy this morning with clear skies overhead. All quiet on the western back 40.
Not so quiet elsewhere in NM,but no 50 mph winds hopefully.

 

[AlaskaHunter]

“The West” it’s a pretty big place, so I know it’s different in many places. At the beginning of the month local snotels we’re in the 40%s in terms of Snow water equivalent.

We received over 2 feet of snow at our house a week ago, and the mountains were well over 3 feet and in some places four feet. Here comes another system, and some local snow packs are crawling their way back for now.

Doesn’t mean we are saved but it is good news. Prickly pear creek, in which the kids and I fish and play all summer, was running at 33% it’s typical flow only two weeks ago.

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North Dakota also...30 inches of snow at Minot, N. D.

 

[Valley1320]

Found out today my cousin and his wife that live north of Las Vegas lost their house due to the calf canyon fire.

 

[BlakeA]

North Dakota also...30 inches of snow at Minot, N. D.

We're at about 55 inches in the last 7-8 days.

 

[TLowell02]

Couple new fires today in harding and union counties I havnt seen them on the news yet, jus know some firefighters up they that said they are starting to big. Also another new fire between tatum and roswell, we may end up sending a couple trucks to it yet... if it keeps blowing up

The wind was unreal on the fire in Union county - Campbell Road fire ended going over 5,000 acres before we (and the wind change) stopped progression after midnight. I could see smoke from the Mitchell fire yesterday from my front porch. Hopefully today's cooler temps and much higher RH helped reduce the fire behavior.

 

[Valley1320]

The wind was unreal on the fire in Union county - Campbell Road fire ended going over 5,000 acres before we (and the wind change) stopped progression after midnight. I could see smoke from the Mitchell fire yesterday from my front porch. Hopefully today's cooler temps and much higher RH helped reduce the fire behavior.

Ya its crazy. I had buddies on the Mitchell fire Sunday and they said it seemed like it was pertu much contained inside dozer lines unless the wind comes up enough to blow it out again

 

[hank4elk]

Another day in NM under red flag warnings. Gusty in the north on the fires.

 

[ccc23454]

@hank4elk and all NM guys it sucks watching this drought develop into real world fire problems. You guys take care and above all be safe, wishing you the best!

 

[TLowell02]

Another day in NM under red flag warnings. Gusty in the north on the fires.

Another new fire on the Gila, this one north of Mimbres. Quickly up to 1200 acres

 

[MarvB]

Lake Mead plummets to unprecedented low, exposing original 1971 water intake valve

Lake Mead's plummeting water level has exposed one of the reservoir's original water intake valves for the first time, officials say.

amp.cnn.com

 

[manitou1]

FINALLY got some rain here in Johnson Co Wyoming! Yay!
Rained yesterday, last night and has been raining since about 06:30 this morning. Is now 08:42.
This is the most rain I have seen in at least 14 months here!

 

[hank4elk]

Another new fire on the Gila, this one north of Mimbres. Quickly up to 1200 acres

New one on the Alamo reservation near Magdelana now too.

 

[Wallydeuce]

New one on the Alamo reservation near Magdelana now too.

Jesus. The southwest has been nothing but a wind tunnel for months now. Sending good thoughts your way.

 

[hank4elk]

Jesus. The southwest has been nothing but a wind tunnel for months now. Sending good thoughts your way.

Dug the same footers out twice this spring. Blowing 30-40 already today.

 

[Valley1320]

We mutal aided on our first big one for the year, jus bout got the lil town of house NM. Havnt heard a acreage but from what we knew and could guess pry around 5,000 acres

 

[Valley1320]

 

[Oak]

The Calf Canyon Fire really took off again today. Flame lengths in the video below are nuts.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1520220271038279680

Some photos from the Las Vegas, NM area this evening.





Timelapse from this afternoon.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1520160781823848448

 

[hank4elk]

2 new fires this morning in SW NM.
Turkey fire east of Reserve,400 ac. Bear trap in Magdalena Mtns. 300 ac.
Blew all night and blowing this morning.
Central & northern fires doubled in size over the weekend. More villages around Las Vegas under evac orders, Las Vegas proper now too.
Winds all week again and no rain in sight.

 

[Heyjbales]

Praying these fires don't continue getting out of hand. That's scary stuff.

I suppose on the bright side, we got another half-inch of water in Central Wyoming last night. I am hoping parts of this state, and probably areas of our neighbors to the north and east will be really near lifted out of official drought when the monitor report comes out this Thursday.