Wildfires

[Bob]

Sitting on the Soda fire now.. Some info ....

 

[andyjaggy]

Man. the northwest is hit hard this year. We seemed to have mostly dodged the bullet here in Utah.

 

[IntrepidXJ]

That first smoke map must be off, we have a lot of smoke here western Colorado!

 

[River]

A couple pictures of the fire last week. Taken from about 30+ miles away up Bogus Basin.

 

[River]

8/19/15 MODIS image showing smoke and fires.

 

[Bob]

A couple pictures of the fire last week. Taken from about 30+ miles away up Bogus Basin.

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Yep.... Was pretty wild for a few days....fire was running like water poured over the land..

 

[Duke]

I just drove to the Oregon coast for some surfing (which was awesome) last week and weekend. We stayed in John Day the first night (last Wed) to see the meteors. On the way to Mt Hood the next day drove THROUGH a fire on the Warm Springs res. A few days on the coast and then came back Sunday with the smoke much worse in just those few days. That entire route after the Cascades seemed to be burning.

At work I have been using this site to determine health risks from this:

http://airnow.gov/

 

[Nick]

Wild. Thanks for posting, @River.

 

[Dustin Gent]

we drove from PDX to Salt Lake Monday night when were moving, and outside Baker City, it was a dark fog. You could just smell the fire. Most of the PNW is ablaze now, sadly

 

[River]

Highway 12 along the Lochsa this afternoon

 

[River]

Sunrise near Riggins

 

[Bob]

Highway 12 along the Lochsa this afternoonView attachment 33610

I was in Powell on the Lochsa 2yrs ago for 90 days. ..was like that the entire time..

 

[Bob]

Saw the moon and stars last night the first time in 8 days here on the Soda fire south of Boise

 

[River]

Felt like Cheech and Chong when I got to Missoula. Truck and camper smell a bit like smoke.

 

[Bob]

Ha...after that roll my truck still smells like stale smoke when you turn on the ac or heat.. .

 

[Keith]

Air quality tanked in the Seattle area yesterday -- yuck!

 

[Ben]

i swear i can taste it in the water i'm drinking even after i filter it

 

[Bob]

Fire south end of Yellowstone lake

 

[Joey]

Fire south end of Yellowstone lake

I don't think those are that big though, right? A lot of that is already burned too. Seems like there were some fires there in 2013.

Hopefully this rain helps. It rained all day yesterday in Jackson. Its still overcast and drizzling this morning.

 

[Bob]

What's rain?