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[ski3pin]

Oregon Faces Extremely Critical Fire Danger

[MarkBC]

WoW!  

 

...The upcoming weather pattern setup is extraordinarily rare, according to the National Weather Service, with an arctic air mass more typically seen in January moving toward the area. "The end result is an early September weather pattern that probably occurs in this magnitude only 2-4 times a century,” the National Weather Service said, adding, “this offshore wind event is literally off the charts for this time of year, and by many measures."...

 

I knew we were under a Red Flag Warning (which isn't unusual this summer), but I hadn't heard the Extremely Critical designation.  And I hadn't heard just how rare the underlying weather event is.

[MarkBC]

Even though there aren't any big fires close enough to threaten Bend right now... it's still very smoky. 

Objects just a couple hundred yards away are hazy from smoke in the air.

I think the local smoke is mostly from the Lionshead fire -- northwest of here.  Strong winds blowing from the northwest.

 

 

Outside it smells strongly of smoke -- even to an olfactorily-impaired guy like me. 

[LuckyDan]

Maybe Lionshead, White River or maybe the Washington fires. One blew up from the start next to Omak yesterday, is already 67K or so as of this morning. Either way there is plenty around to smoke us up. Some interesting, for lack of a better term, stuff showing in California too. Especially what I think is the Southern Sierra.

https://www.star.nes...COLOR&length=24

For those impacted, I wish you all the best of luck.

Edited by LuckyDan, 07 September 2020 - 11:47 PM.

[craig333]

A little of that Colorado snow would be a big help.

[LuckyDan]

A little of that Colorado snow would be a big help.

Boy wouldn’t it.

[MarkBC]

Wild! 

 

[MarkBC]

A day later and the smoke in Oregon is still westbound...which is unusual.

 

 

Sometimes there are strong winds that blow west down the Columbia River Gorge, but this is a lot broader than that.

[ski3pin]

We just heard from friends in Leaburg on the McKenzie, they are safe in a motel in Eugene. They were evacuated from the Holiday Farm fire at 1 am yesterday.

[MarkBC]

I just heard from my next door neighbor that her family cabin on the Little Northfork of the Santiam River -- built by her father in the '50s -- has burned...in one of those plumes in the satellite pic I posted above.  They've told me over the years, "...going to the cabin..." -- but no more.