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Manitoba declares provincewide state of emergency over wildfires! #manitobawildfires #fireseason #wildfires

KATU: First big #blaze of 2025 #fireseason grows to 2,000 #acres in central #Oregon
https://katu.com/news/local/first-big-blaze-of-2025-fire-season-grows-to-2000-acres-in-central-oregon-wheeler-wasco-gilliam-sherman-county-clarno

Another day of high fire risk is expected across northern Wisconsin and the western Upper Peninsula today. Red Flag Warnings are issued when there are hot temperatures, very low humidity, gusty winds, and dry fuels.#fireseason #katiethoresen #springfireseason #wildfire #wisconsin #wisconsindnr #wxpr
It’s ‘all hands on deck’ as hot temps and strong winds bring high risk of wildfires to the Northwoods | Great Lakes Now

The Rockies are facing another year of drought conditions. The snow melted several weeks earlier than normal, and the snowpack is lower than it was in 2023, the year of Canada's recordbreaking wildfires #fires #forestfires #fireseason #canada #alberta https://globalnews.ca/news/11186601/banff-summer-jasper-wildfire/

Canada's fire season begins with taking of two lives in Manitoba. "RCMP say the bodies of two people have been found as crews battle a wildfire in a popular lakefront cottage area northeast of Winnipeg." #climatechange #globalwarming #fireseason #fire #canada https://www.winnipegfreepress.com/breakingnews/2025/05/14/rcmp-worst-fears-confirmed-in-wildfire

Tracking Canada's wildfires in 2025:

#wildfire #canada #forestfire #maps #wildfires #forests #firefighting #BorealForest #cbc #fireseason

https://www.cbc.ca/newsinteractives/features/wildfires-tracker-canada

Low snowpack heading into summer, concerns about drought in Okanagan
Smaller creeks might be at risk of running dry this summer, experts predict.
#weather #environment #water #Okanagan #Fire #Fireseason
https://globalnews.ca/news/11172836/low-snowpack-summer-drought-okanagan/

Fever Dream, Kim Dorland, 2022
End Of The Journey, Friedrich Kunath, 2019
This Is Not A Drill, Leah Gardner, 2022

These all seem a little defiant, maybe "strongly worded", just some random associations while going through images, hope you enjoy. It's like this sometimes

#art @art #fireSeason #notSilly #rainbowInTheDark

in a thickly painted or scraped on style, a pine forest in strange colors. a tree in the center is clearly on fire. The sky is gray and the ground is black

two figures are on a cliff overlooking a bay, presumably on the ocean. There is a bright moon lighting up some clouds and reflected in the water. there is a distant sailboat. right through the middle of this scene is a rainbow-like band of color but it is in the opposite orientation as a rainbow; it forms a curve like a letter L

a goose is walking against a simple background, with pink laser beams? coming out of its eyes

Manjula Martin “The Last Fire Season: A Personal and Pyronatural History.” (2024)
https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/sadness-and-strange-beauty-on-manjula-martins-the-last-fire-season/

2020 Conflagration*
“ Nearly 9,900 #wildfires burned 4.3 million acres in #California 2020, twice the previous record.”
https://www.ucdavis.edu/climate/news/californias-2020-wildfire-season-numbers

* Etymology: Latin conflagrant-, conflagrans, present participle of conflagrare to burn, from com- + flagrare to burn —
First Known Use: circa 1656

#ManjulaMartin #Fireseason #wildfires
#Pyrocene #Sonoma

And governor #PhilMurphy still opposes #congestionpricing: irony
https://www.nbcnewyork.com/new-jersey/stone-bridge-1800s-emerges-west-milford-reservoir-empty/5990138/ #newjersey #Climate #climatecrisis #fireseason

Indeed, I'm wondering whether #congestionpricing will ever go back to $15, as opposed to this measly $9, which seems wholely inadequate given that #ProspectPark and #Inwood Hill Park are being burnt to the ground #Climate #climatechange #climatecrisis #KathyHochul #fireseason

This is where we're at right now: "Don’t be surprised if you smell #smoke from time to time this week as current fires burn and new ones flare up."
https://www.nbcnewyork.com/weather/weather-stories/why-does-it-smell-like-smoke-outside-today-nj-wildfires/5987930/ #fireseason #fires #fire #brooklyn #Climate #climatechange #congestionpricing

Massachusetts residents are being asked to conserve water because of wildfires, drought

With a drought and wildfires plaguing Massachusetts, Gov. Maura Healey is telling people to conserve water to help firefighters.

"'Drought conditions and wildfire risks are ongoing. There are steps everyone can take to minimize risk, protect their communities, conserve water and support our firefighters,' Healey said in a release. 'Residents, businesses and facilities should minimize their water use as much as possible, and there should be no outdoor fires at this time. Our firefighters are working hard and making considerable sacrifices to battle these fires on our behalf. Let’s do all we can to avoid making their jobs any harder.'

Here's what to know.

What's the latest on wildfires burning in the state?

"There are about 60 wildfires burning in Massachusetts as of Wednesday, according to National Interagency Fire Center data which tracks wildfires across the United States.

"That's down from Nov. 9 when state fire officials reported 175 #wildfires that continued to be an issue across Massachusetts. Mass Wildlife stated that there were 203 brush fires in Massachusetts during the month of October, which is an increase of about 1,200% over the average. Typically, there are only about 15 brush fires in October.

"On Nov. 10, the Department of Conservation and Recreation (DCR) stated, 'Effective immediately and continuing until further notice, the (DCR) has closed Boxford State Forest to visitors in order to fight an active wildfire.' That wildfire burnt 150 acres of land.

How severe is the drought in Massachusetts?

"As of Nov. 7, the Connecticut River Valley's (#Connecticut, #Massachusetts, #NewHampshire, and #Vermont) level was raised to a Level 2 (significant drought). The central and northeast regions of Massachusetts have been raised to a #Level3, which constitutes a '#CriticalDrought.' Cape Cod is considered to be 'abnormally dry' at the moment."

https://www.wickedlocal.com/story/news/2024/11/13/massachusetts-wildfires-drought-water-conservation/76250700007/

#ThisIsFine #NYCBrushFires #WildfireWx #Drought2024
#FireSeason #NortheastWildfires

#InwoodPark Ablaze as #BrushFires Reach Historic Levels Across #NYC

Firefighters have responded to more than 200 brush fires in the past two weeks, including nearly two dozen in #VanCortlandtPark in The Bronx, as the city reckons with an historically dry and fiery season.

by Jonathan Custodio and Max Rivera Nov. 13, 2024

‘We Could Smell It From Our Apartment’

"The recent brush fires over a historically dry stretch included two separate ones over four days in wooded parts of the Bronx’s sprawling Van Cortlandt Park that have local residents and officials concerned about what could be coming before significant rain finally arrives.

"'Remarkably dry conditions in October and so far in November have resulted in a historic amount of brush fires over the last two weeks,' FDNY Commissioner Robert Tucker said in a statement on Wednesday, hours before another brush fire erupted in Inwood Hill Park. 'Due to a significant lack of rainfall, the threat of fast spreading brush fires fueled by dry vegetation and windy conditions pose a real threat to our members and our city."

https://www.thecity.nyc/2024/11/13/brush-fires-nyc-inwood-van-cortlandt-parks/

#NYCBrushFires #NYC #WildfireWx #Drought2024 #FireSeason #NortheastWildfires

7 Takeaways From the Seemingly Endless #WildFire Season
What can we learn from how a changing #climate has affected an expanding #fireseason?
Lowering risk of #wildfires requires better maintenance of flammable matter, which can be controlled by “prescribed” burns.
Requires limiting #greenhousegas #emissions. #ClimateChange is caused by emissions of carbon dioxide and other planet-warming gases into the air, mainly from the burning of #fossilfuels.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/09/climate/climate-changing-fire-season.html
https://archive.ph/adAGR

Photo of a Wildfire firefighter in California

Our battery powered wall clock turned itself back
by exactly one hour yesterday

Yet Daylight Savings starts today
when clocks spring forward by one hour (except Qld, NT, WA)

It’s nearing Beltane here (looking towards Summer - Southern Hemisphere)
Not spooky Samhain (looking towards Winter - Northern Hemisphere)

So, a gentle reminder to change Smoke Alarm Batteries before Fire Season.

#DaylightSavings #Australia #FireSeason #FireSafety #FireFestival #Beach #Ocean #Dawn #Clocks #Time

A surf-skier at dawn (ironically taken in South East Queensland, which doesn’t have Daylight Savings.)

From the white foam shore of a surf beach, a person wearing a pink rashie vest looks back across glimmering ocean waves at a gorgeous pink dawn after an early morning paddle in the ocean.

A rocky headland to the right shows the silhouettes of a tall Norfolk Island pine tree and other native trees and vegetation sloping down towards the water.

Image Credit: (ABC News: Dominic Cansdale)

Not 15 years ago, if we had three forest fires in five (or so) years, that was a lot. Now, we are surrounded by them every summer. Starting in July, there are always fires in just about every direction, and the smoke just rolls in.

If we're lucky, we get three weeks of good summer that we can enjoy. The rest of the summer, this is what we have, every year.

I have asthma, and I've been sick so often over the last couple of years that it has become clear that I can't continue to live here anymore. I'm not alone.

Anyway, happy Monday.

#ClimateChange #AirQuality #ForestFires #FireSeason #Asthma

#FireSeason

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