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A hot dry summer means...
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Started so slow. Now it's going gangbusters and all the firefighters will be getting prepared to go back to university
May or may not any real relevance to one of the worst fire seasons... last week there were some sunsets that seemed redder than usual, or a different shade of red, or the red sunset light seemed to last longer than it normally would. News reports from Toronto said that this might be happening because of smoke in the upper atmosphere from fires further west... this was snapped quickly while passing through and doesn't really reproduce the spectacle all that well but there were people at the Toronto waterfront standing around and looking... but they always do at sunsets anyway.
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Continuing to move West on our tour of Canadian Wildfires, the first thing of note is the fact that every province uses it own mapping version so no two are the same and you have to learn them all. Manitoba's icons are too large to actually show fire sizes but other provinces have less information about individual fires when clicking on the icon.
On the west border of Manitoba is Saskatchewan. All their fires are in the north and of note, if Alan were doing his trip this year, he would have had several fires to deal with along the way.
It shows the number of fires to date on the map which is very small in comparison as Ontario has had 602 to date and Manitoba is at 435, BC is at 1,034 fires to date.
Alberta has the least, but most of it burned last year, or, because the Tar Sands projects means removing all the trees, there is less to burn.
BC is still very active but less than NW Ontario or Manitoba. Only one fire in the Bowron Circuit and most of the fires are more southerly where all the people live.
All of this will lessen the need for a softwood lumber deal since we won't have any trees left to sell.
Continuing to move West on our tour of Canadian Wildfires, the first thing of note is the fact that every province uses it own mapping version so no two are the same and you have to learn them all. Manitoba's icons are too large to actually show fire sizes but other provinces have less information about individual fires when clicking on the icon.
On the west border of Manitoba is Saskatchewan. All their fires are in the north and of note, if Alan were doing his trip this year, he would have had several fires to deal with along the way.
It shows the number of fires to date on the map which is very small in comparison as Ontario has had 602 to date and Manitoba is at 435, BC is at 1,034 fires to date.
Alberta has the least, but most of it burned last year, or, because the Tar Sands projects means removing all the trees, there is less to burn.
BC is still very active but less than NW Ontario or Manitoba. Only one fire in the Bowron Circuit and most of the fires are more southerly where all the people live.
All of this will lessen the need for a softwood lumber deal since we won't have any trees left to sell.
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I hope everyone stays safe.
And Alaska is in flood
Northern BC incredibly wet too
Northern BC incredibly wet too
While many of the fires here in Manitoba are small, we have a couple over 7000 hectares and the total area burned/burning so far is...
83,738 hectares which equals
207,000 acres or
323 square miles.
83,738 hectares which equals
207,000 acres or
323 square miles.
Got to say the burning red sunrises of late have been breathtaking
Drought monitor map... BC's interior is very dry this year. Northern Ontario and Manitoba not as bad, but still dry.
http://www.agr.gc.ca/eng/programs-an...=1463575104513
http://www.agr.gc.ca/eng/programs-an...=1463575104513
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