Yesterday I took pity on Nix and took her for our weekly shopping foray/Foraging Mission.

She performed Flawlessly (caught a Prius fair and square), in spite of the Vicious north wind that made her dance a bit. Some might see that as a contradiction in terms. Not so. We were in control at all times.

Good thing we went yesterday. This morning I woke up at 6am to see Flames out the back door! True, they were some distance in the hills to the north, but that wind yesterday blew out every fire in the state, of which there are about 200 of various sizes, 20 major ones. I posted a screen shot over in the Weather thread in Off Topic if anyone is curious about the situation.

114F yesterday, 72F since about 3am. and it's DARK! Which is why I could see Flames on the hills.
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yes I have been wondering about those fires,I hope you are ok.

 

Stay safe Elinor.

 

Stay safe! Glad you had a good day out. Beautiful Jag.

I've been watching the fires. Glad I no longer live in CA. My hometown of Paradise burned down almost two years ago and I still have family in the Oroville area. I drove out there in May of 2019...so weird to see everything in Paradise gone.

Again, stay safe.

Jeff H

 

Thank you everybody.

We ALL well remember the Campfire and the devastation is wreaked, and the fact that Thousands have left the area.
In fact, some locally who survived are troubled with Flashbacks today.

The sky was a sickly yellow all day, like a foreign planet from a Star Trek movie. At least the wind has gone down, but many small mountain towns in the paths of these numerous fires are no more.
This will go on till we get a good soaking rain; just like it always does.
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Aye, Elinor, you and yours, stay safe... I am in quarantine . I may have forgotten how to drive!!!! Jeep needs to go in for SMOG test. Jaguar needs to go in for gas!!!

Yesterdays Orange world had most of us bewildered. The local CBS weatherman apologized for the big miss on temperature prediction, but made up for it with a nice presentation of the conditions that made the air orange. A complicated inversion issue.
Actually air quality was not good, but better than it had been!!!

And the atmosphere filtered the sun's colors, leaving only orange/ No blue I got a lot out of the science he illustrated. Far better than mere reading off numbers...