Wildfires - smoke

[Doofy]

Or you live in Ketchikan, AK where average annual rainfall is 150 inches and has been as high a 203 inches.

We are now up to the record breaking amount of - - 0.20" in the last 20 hours. If it continues this way we will receive a quarter inch - 0.250" in 24 hours.

Its almost enough to make all our powder dry earth a bit damp.

It certainly is a true joy to have nice, clean, cool air. I didn't realize how icky it was until this rain cleared everything.

oosik,

Keep up your rain dance to keep the smoke away for at least 3 more weeks. The wife is heading to WA and OR for a mini vacation and would like to see the sights and also be able to breathe. We are over 10.5" for the year so far and I am getting depressed but that is better than burning.

 

[California]

Last week when this thread started it was awful in the Central Valley. After a couple of miserable days I was able to get away, over to the ranch (orchard) 10 miles inland from the coast.

While the air was hazy there it wasn't the miserable, choking mess downwind from the fires. Luckily most of the weather there comes in from the southwest, ie from offshore of San Francisco, and in this case that prevailing SW breeze made a corridor of relatively clean air up and down the coast.

Its going to be a long fire season.

 

[oosik]

Doofy - the year we spent in Glennallen- 1965 - I'm sure it rained but I don't remember it. That's quite a bit - and you aren't even into the fall rainy season yet.

I remember a "wildfire" that year - up around Paxson or Tok. Had to go up there for the job - the smoke from that fire was a completely different situation than experienced down here. Burning scrub brush and peat - - nasty smoke.

Just for you Doofy - my rain dance shorts - a brief butt meaningful shaking of the booty - right after lunch. They are really quit the thing also - you know the fluorescent yellow reflective striping used on highway dept workers jackets - - well, my rain dance shorts are that solid color. Never leave the property with them on - men with the white jackets await just outside my property.

 

[Doofy]

Doofy - the year we spent in Glennallen- 1965 - I'm sure it rained but I don't remember it. That's quite a bit - and you aren't even into the fall rainy season yet.

I remember a "wildfire" that year - up around Paxson or Tok. Had to go up there for the job - the smoke from that fire was a completely different situation than experienced down here. Burning scrub brush and peat - - nasty smoke.

Just for you Doofy - my rain dance shorts - a brief butt meaningful shaking of the booty - right after lunch. They are really quit the thing also - you know the fluorescent yellow reflective striping used on highway dept workers jackets - - well, my rain dance shorts are that solid color. Never leave the property with them on - men with the white jackets await just outside my property.

Truly Frightening! Us old guys should not bear any wrinkled moons (according to the wife).

 

[oosik]

Well - I'm feeling in a sort of wild mood - so here it goes DOOFY - just for you. Think I'll quit while I'm a-head.

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[Doofy]

Well - I'm feeling in a sort of wild mood - so here it goes DOOFY - just for you. Think I'll quit while I'm a-head.

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Those things would blind a person! The Rain God's would surely make it rain...just to blot out seeing those shorts!

 

[bcp]

Rain gauge here, 20 miles NE of Portland, went from about 1/16 last night to 5/8 this morning. This is the first in months heavy enough to wet the ground under the big fir trees.

Bruce

 

[California]

Rain gauge here, 20 miles NE of Portland, went from about 1/16 last night to 5/8 this morning. This is the first in months heavy enough to wet the ground under the big fir trees.

That's good news. We sure could use some rain down here.

I forgot to mention in my last post: I bit into fresh-harvested corn-on-the-cob from the Farmer's Market last week and it had a slight taste of BBQ. That had to be from the atmosphere.

 

[oosik]

It isn't a lot - but I'm certainly glad to hear that others are getting some rain also.

 

[oosik]

Ugg - I guess I've seen my allotted "clear weather" for a while. Its pretty smoky smelling this morning - to early to see how the air looks. I'll certainly be glad when our fall rains get here.