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Peter & Judy

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It looks like it will be a smokey summer again this year. In southern BC record high temperatures are being recorded and record temperatures are being broken everyday. Lytton broke a Canadian heat record yesterday at 47.9C which is about 118F. Also the southern interior of BC has only had about 20% of annual rainfall so far this year. So we are on the cusp of a huge forest fire potential. The same is true all the across western US.

There have been resent upgrades to the Canadian Fire Smoke website and the link below might be useful. Safe boating.

http://firesmoke.ca/forecasts/current/
 
Peter & Judy":16akdcht said:
It looks like it will be a smokey summer again this year. In southern BC record high temperatures are being recorded and record temperatures are being broken everyday. Lytton broke a Canadian heat record yesterday at 47.9C which is about 118F. Also the southern interior of BC has only had about 20% of annual rainfall so far this year. So we are on the cusp of a huge forest fire potential. The same is true all the across western US.

There have been resent upgrades to the Canadian Fire Smoke website and the link below might be useful. Safe boating.

http://firesmoke.ca/forecasts/current/
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Interestingly, we have no current major wildfires in Washington State according to our own fire agencies.

https://gacc.nifc.gov/nwcc/information/firemap.aspx

That is likely to change. I've been out and things are getting tinder-dry.

Current air quality doesn't indicate wildfire smoke of consequence in WA.

The Canada site above shows three wildfires in WA with lots of smoke. Yakima should be really bad, but the real-time air quality status, hundreds of sensors linked by internet:

https://aqicn.org/map/washington/

doesn't indicate this.

I don't understand the conflicting information, but it appears right now that air quality is decent, and not heavily influenced by large wildfires. We are hazy at South Sound probably due to the weather trapping emissions and not allowing them to disperse.

There is some smoke coming into the US from southern BC, but it currently won't affect boating much. Get out there while the air is good! The fire conditions are getting worse by the minute, and the weather forecast is not good relative to wildfire potential.
 
I have asthma and I don’t even freak out anymore. If it’s smokey, it’s smokey. Nothing I can do about it. I go about my life and enjoy the fact that it’s not 35*F and drizzling...
 
Yesterday we had a gorgeous clear blue sky, sunshine and about 70F, with a stiff ocean breeze, 15 steady, and occasionally up to 18-20. Looking toward the mountains to the south, there was a "haze" coming over the tops. Had a smoky tint, but no smell. Sure looked like some fire way off to the SW.

Harvey
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Wild fires, the PNW is seeing more of them and last year it was bad enough that I decided to get some additional indoor HEPA filtered air cleaners. I now have three plus a 4" pleated filter on the forced air system.
 
We had one hotspot I know of up twisp river. Failed human ignition I believe, but otherwise our haze is all from other areas blowing in. Looking to Canada this week. Neighbors definitely on high alert right now with dry lighting in the forecast. Just a curious related question. Where do cbrats keep their boating flammable items in extreme heat? Flares, iso/butane cannisters, etc? I pulled up the stove cannisters into the house as they are rated to 110f and it was 119 in the driveway.
 
And for those who have asthma, COPD or inflammatory allergy issues, it would be a good idea to get a spare one or two, of whatever you are using, inhalers, MDI or Powder puffs, and keep them wherever you are. I keep a backup in the boat always, because if I'm out on the boat it is a long way from the home medicine cabinet.

Harvey
SleepyC :moon

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