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Unvetted from an acquaintance in Portland. Sounds about right for 2020

Portland:  Heads up!  ????????????????????

Just wrapped up one of the busiest shifts I’ve worked in my nearly 18 years in the National Weather Service.  After a long year of dead weather, I feel alive again ??

??  Portland is seriously looking down the barrel of a severe fire weather event later tomorrow through Wednesday - one that, if it occurs how forecast models have been consistently been portraying for the past 2 days, will be the kind of fire weather event the Portland area only sees once every 50+ years.  

??  Our forecast is on the conservative side, but still ridiculous for this time of year.  East winds, developing later tomorrow, then gusts increasing to 35-45 mph in the metro area and gusts 60-80 mph in the hills.  Meanwhile, relative humidity drops to around 10-15% by Tuesday and perhaps into the 5-10% range if the drier forecasts come true.  

??  If you’re from Sonoma County and this sounds familiar, it should.  It’s essentially the same type of weather pattern that caused fire to rage into Santa Rosa in Oct 2017.  

??  If you’re in Portland, don’t be surprised if your power gets shut off sometime Monday and/or Tuesday.  This is the kind of event that may cause power companies to de-energize their power lines to prevent them from starting fires if they get blown down.  Such a fire destroyed neighborhoods in my hometown of Santa Rosa.  

??  I can already imagine the conspiracy theories that would fly on both sides of the political spectrum if power gets shut down.  If anyone tells you it was Antifa or white supremacists or China who shut down power, please laugh at their face for me.  It’s being done to keep us safe.

??  Remember:  No spark, no fire.  No fire, and we’ll get through this without tragedy.  For those who remember Sep 2017 and the Eagle Creek Fire, this appears to be 25-50% stronger than the wind event that caused that fire to spread nearly 20 miles in one night.  That “weaker” event caused flaming embers from Oregon to blow across the massive Columbia River and started a fire 1-2 miles away on the Washington side.  

??  There will probably be some damage from the wind alone.  Branches will break, and debris that has gathered since it was last windy will be shaken down.  If this event turns out to be as strong or stronger than current models suggest to me, we could see occasional East wind gusts 45-55 mph IN PORTLAND.  

??  If the higher-end projections pan out, this will be a very memorable wind event with gusts potentially as high as 60-70 mph in Portland.  With trees still green and fully leafed out, this would cause a significant amount of damage.

??  In case you can’t tell - I’m am EXTREMELY nervous about this event.  It has Portland Firestorm written all over it.  Let’s be smart and make sure thar doesn’t happen.  

??  Stay safe and smart out there.  Hopefully it turns out that we’re all over-forecasting this event.  But I’m going to make sure my cell phone is charged tomorrow through Tuesday, that’s for sure.

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Utah county where I live is full of heavy smoke today...I have wondered where it came from.

Looks like it could be from cali.  Again.

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*Laughs In Montanan*

Forecast for tomorrow? High of 50, rain, snow above 6000'.

Happy Labor Day!  

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Unvetted from an acquaintance in Portland. Sounds about right for 2020

Portland:  Heads up!  ????????????????????

Just wrapped up one of the busiest shifts I’ve worked in my nearly 18 years in the National Weather Service.  After a long year of dead weather, I feel alive again ??

??  Portland is seriously looking down the barrel of a severe fire weather event later tomorrow through Wednesday - one that, if it occurs how forecast models have been consistently been portraying for the past 2 days, will be the kind of fire weather event the Portland area only sees once every 50+ years.  

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I think the smoke is working its way back here again. Pretty hazy out right now for 3:00pm.

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That smoke is a known cancer causing agent and was not labeled as such when Cali exported it.  Nevada should file a lawsuit.

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Fuck 'em.

Breathe deep, you commie bastards!!!

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I think the smoke is working its way back here again. Pretty hazy out right now for 3:00pm.

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Wife and I took a trip up to Leavitt Lake off 108 yesterday morning.  It was beautiful when we got there.  About 4 PM a smoke cloud moved in, blocked the sun and dropped the tempo about 10 degrees almost immediately.   There was ash all over the truck this morning and though it had a cleared a bit it was still pretty bad and likely to do a repeat this afternoon we just packed up and head home.  No smoke in the sac valley and the pool temp is perfect.

This is the shit rolling in from the south yesterday.
https://i.imgur.com/UomJsE0.jpg

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It’s bad, man. Big one up near Shaver & Huntington Lakes started a day or so ago and it’s spreading fast. I live about an hour away, down the mountain. Nearly everyone up there is a solid, patriotic American. Lots of horse trailers on the freeway today, coming down from the evacuation zones  

The parts of CA that burn are almost never the parts that Arfcom would celebrate burning if they really knew. Quite the opposite, really

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Learn to swim!

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California is asshole.

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Psalms 9:17
“The wicked shall be turned into hell, and all the nations that forget God.”



Well it’s a start so take heed!

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I went down to Sonora Pass yesterday from Lake Tahoe via 395 to pick up my wife and her hiking partner who were on the Pacific Crest Trail.  
They had just spent the last six days hiking from Yosemite up to 108.  When they saw the Slink Fire smoke plume in the distance along their planned route they decided to bail and hike the next section some other time.  
Much like for you conditions changed in a matter of a few hours from mostly clear to completely miserable for us.  That Creek Fire really blew up and pumped smoke north along the spine of the Sierras.

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My wife keeps talking about this place where the beer flows like wine. Where beautiful women instinctively flock like the salmon of Capistrano... I'm talking about a little place called Utah.

She’s never been there, but has this image of a magical land that’s anywhere but California. So, yah. Watch your corn hole. We might be going in dry.

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Where do we find CARB's fines against the people responsible for mismanaging their forests?  

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I think I remember reading here and seeing links about how Cali used to be very marshy with more lakes but when they started damming up th rivers for power plants it dried everything up and thats why their in this mess now?  Is that right?

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Crazy that you can see the borders from space too. Didn't know that.

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And... This has probably been the most mild fire season in the past 10 years.

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Just like that 300 years of motorcycle green stickers progress went backwards on pollution.