The smoke in our valley tonight is from a management burn about an hour south of us. The first picture shows where it is located and the ridge it is burning behind. If this fire burned up to 35,000 acres it would be a good burn as long as it doesn't burn terribly hot. Right now it has burned about 1500 acres. It is doing good fire wise but the smoke became a problem tonight as shown by the pictures. It is unfortunate that when a fire like this is burning that the clearing index (which allows smoke to rise) can't always be above 500 feet (this means the smoke will rise to that level) so that the smoke stays out of the valleys.
Red skies at night are a wildland firefighters delight---here's a picture of the red sun as taken along the river south of our house. The red doesn't really show up as good as it was but you get the idea.
Here is a picture of the sun that was taken near our house---you can see how thick the smoke is and if you look near the tree branches you can see the sun---it was pretty much obliterated by the smoke and the smoke was too heavy for the red to show through.
Seeing this and smelling the smoke got my heart pumping and the adrenaline flowing---I need to get out on at least one more this season.
2 comments:
whenever we have fires here it always makes me want to bbq cause you can always smell the mesquite burning lol
The last picture looks like a normal day when I was living in LA!
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