News DetailWildfires continue to rage in Southern California!
Posted At: October 23, 2007 @ 2:19 PM
Posted By: Reed Timmer
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Wildfires continue to rage across parts of Southern California Tuesday, from the Mexico Border to north of Los Angeles. More than 500,000 people have been evacuated from their homes in San Diego County alone! The 3 fires north of Los Angeles may combine into one massive wildfire today, threatening 56,000 homes in the area, as strong Santa Ana winds continue across the region. The satellite image below shows the fires well, with a few small fires as far south as the central Baja Peninsula.
Here is a link to the best live feed from Southern California, courtesy of Cors:
http://media.myfoxla.com/live/
The 850 mb RUC analysis from this afternoon over the Southwest U.S. shows the textbook Santa Ana wind pattern, with strong easterly flow over Arizona, Southern California, and northwest Mexico south of a strong anticyclone over the Great Basin. The easterly winds become particularly strong at the surface as they are funneled through valleys and mountain passes in Southern California, and the air warms and dries due to compression as air parcels descend towards sea level. The result is an environment favorable for uncontrollable and unpredictable wildfires over highly populated Southern California.
http://media.myfoxla.com/live/
The 850 mb RUC analysis from this afternoon over the Southwest U.S. shows the textbook Santa Ana wind pattern, with strong easterly flow over Arizona, Southern California, and northwest Mexico south of a strong anticyclone over the Great Basin. The easterly winds become particularly strong at the surface as they are funneled through valleys and mountain passes in Southern California, and the air warms and dries due to compression as air parcels descend towards sea level. The result is an environment favorable for uncontrollable and unpredictable wildfires over highly populated Southern California.
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Wow....one fire has burned almost 100,000 acres!!!! over 500,000 evacuated says CNN.......wow...thats terrible...I guess this is Firestorm 2007
I`ll take severe weather season any day over that. Tragic to see that much damage from wild fires with so many homes and businesses lost.
the thing is there is no rain in the near future to help these fires so that they will go out.
all the much needed rain is currently on the british columbia coast. tofino has already seen 8 inches. id definetly like to see this down south instead.
Hey guys whats up!! Today is SOOO much nicer than yesterday! It is currently 62 degrees, much better than the 49 degrees of yesterday!
So is there anything interesting going on??
Other than the fires nothing much.
Hey Zack, yeh like Matt says the fires are still going in CA....not good
I tested some golf clubs today. It was pretty sweet. But with these new clubs that are square. They look funny but they go far..
Speaking of Firestorm, click my name for a link to the song Firestorm haha.
Wow. This isn't letting up is it? Hopefully it does, and sooner than later.
Matt, where do you work that you get to play around with golf clubs all day?
For starters i work at a golf course. But today i went to golf town to demo some clubs.
Cool deal. Doesn't sound like too bad a job eh? haha. The only way to make it better for me is if I was doing a demo of new four-wheelers or something ;)
Hey guys, Whats the latest on the fires then.....had to run out to the shops so havent kept upp to speed
Hey folks!! How are things?? I just got home from werk, then I went out chasing some interesting clouds!
Haha Hey Brady! I'm still waitin on that snow..They changed the date AGAIN, now they say its going to snow on the 6th...I think they should stick with a weekly forecast other then 14 day trend. I mean if they can barely predict one day ahead of the day it currently is, they should really start doing something...I'd fire them if I was the boss.
Anyway on my site I have the Winter Storm forecast map out, what it's going to look like! Just go to Winter Strm fcst cntr.
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
905 PM EDT TUE OCT 23 2007
SCC073-240115-
/O.CAN.KGSP.TO.W.0014.000000T0000Z-071024T0115Z/
OCONEE SC-
905 PM EDT TUE OCT 23 2007
...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR NORTHEASTERN OCONEE COUNTY IS CANCELLED...
LAT...LON 3500 8291 3505 8289 3509 8278 3504 8273
3506 8269 3505 8264 3507 8258 3502 8259
3485 8290 3495 8290 3499 8294
TIME...MOT...LOC 0105Z 231DEG 26KT 3500 8285
$$
SCC077-240115-
/O.CON.KGSP.TO.W.0014.000000T0000Z-071024T0115Z/
PICKENS SC-
905 PM EDT TUE OCT 23 2007
...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 915 PM EDT FOR
NORTHWESTERN PICKENS COUNTY...
AT 901 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO
INDICATE A TORNADO. THIS TORNADO WAS LOCATED 5 MILES NORTH OF NINE
TIMES...OR ABOUT 12 MILES NORTHWEST OF PICKENS...MOVING NORTHEAST AT
30 MPH.
THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
ROCKY BOTTOM BY 910 PM EDT...
8 MILES NORTHWEST OF PUMPKINTOWN BY 915 PM EDT...
Busy evening some places... not in my neck of the woods. Oh well.
Hey everyone, what's up?
Hey AJ!! How the GC doing?? Man I'm tired tonite!! (yawn)
Here a pic I took earlier!!^^
Hey AJ, whats up??
Chilly where you are?
Cool pic! That's more stuff than I've gotten done this week. haha. The GCK is all good, just a little dark... and yes, I need my sleep also. lol. I"m a writer, so I get sleep-deprived.
Does 42 degrees count as chilly?? If so, I think I'm setting a record. haha
Thats a cool picture Brady!
It's currently 56 degrees at my place.
MAN! I have to get off! good night!
Here's a few more!!
http://s195.photobucket.com/albums/z285/shadetree6981/?action=view¤t=100_2922.jpg
http://s195.photobucket.com/albums/z285/shadetree6981/?action=view¤t=000_0072.jpg
http://s195.photobucket.com/albums/z285/shadetree6981/?action=view¤t=000_0067.jpg
http://s195.photobucket.com/albums/z285/shadetree6981/?action=view¤t=100_2923.jpg
http://s195.photobucket.com/albums/z285/shadetree6981/?action=view¤t=100_2930.jpg
44 here AJ!! hehe
Brady, that was nice! I wish our sky looked like that this evening - it's crap-ola weather here! It's like 43, rainy and windy. GEEZ!!!!!! 8-E (That's my "fangs face"!!!)
Cool pics! I still wish I have the chance to get some pics lately. School is stretching me thin!
You can now buy TWC music...like the elevator stuff during the local forecasts.... hmm... talk about getting put to sleep. hehe
Arnold is speaking on the Live Stream right now
Well, I must go, I have work to do, dangit... oh well, my grades need it. ;) jk. My grades are OK this time around...
Goodnite! Peace!
Hehe!! It was crappy, cold and a lil wet today! windy as hell too! As you all can see the clouds started looking cool so I grabbed the cam and went for a lil ride!! It's clear now!! Brrr!! Now it's 42 here!! =(
Speaking of TWC music, they were playing The Thrill Is Gone the other night!! That's a lil better than the elevator music!! hehe
AJ, are you serious about TWC music?!?!!! Sounds like a possible instrument of torture to me!!! :D
Oh, alright. I've said it before & I guess I'll say it again: That weather graphic music makes me want to BUST A MOVE!!!!!!!!! :D
They're talkin about fire tornados on the ABC fire special right now.
Maybe I"m stickin around a little longer... hehe ;)
They play The Allman Bros and Pink Floyd every now and then, to keep my interest. lol
NO WAY!!! Geez, you can tell how long it's been since I've seen TWC, really. Like 5 years, just about! I was thinking they still use that kind of stuff like MSNBC weather (or whatevertheheck it is) uses ... you know, like when we all go watch the same live-stream and they go off the air and put on the music with the scrolling graphics?? That's what I was thinking of. I guess I'm pretty last-century! :D
They ought to get Floyd's early stuff on there! That would probably cause some problems for some people! :D
I think some people would go into shock if their forecast was set to "Ummagumma". lol.
Yes It probably would Heidi!! lol I could hear the weather channel playing classical gas!! Or That's just the way it is!! hehe I haven't actually watched TWC since I got internet!! Just a lil last week or so!!
I"m that person that wakes up, turns on TWC, takes a shower, comes out, and argues with what they're saying for the forecast. lol. Never on a chase day have I used them.
Stephanie Abrams is hot though.... ;)
AJ!!! That would probably go something like, Colors!AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Colors! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!
I was thinking more along the lines of:
I've got a bike, you can ride it if you like.
It's got a basket, a bell that rings
And things to make it look good.
I'd give it to you if I could, but I borrowed it.
:D
I'm not much for forecasting my self, but I mocked the dumb chick on the radio last Thursday when she gave her useless forecast!! I was like BS!! I was right and she wasn't!! lol
What are you talking about Brady, I do that all the time! ;) haha
It'd be the "psychadelic forecast" Heidi! lmao. I love it.
Now I hafta go for the nite! Talk to ya'll later! Peace!
Ahh well...What's up guys? It's 48F here. I just found out summer 08 is really going to suck for me....I have 2 chase partners, One is moving about....1 km or so from me and the other will be in Romania for the whole summer...I'll be all alone in the fierce nature this year..I'm still deciding on wether to chase alone or just wait for storms to hit me. Any Ideas on that?
Hehe!! If ya really wanna freak people out just use Celebration Of The Lizard!! The Doors!!
Hey AJ!! That was you that said a few months back something like, There's nothing like a claasic rock concert for the sole?? I couldn't agree more!!
Let's play correct Brady's spelling mistakes!
classic*
Soul*
Yay I get 100/001
No idea's on my chasing problems?
Yeah!! I wasn't thinking!! I know better!! Blame the Bud Lite
lol Werk wuz tuff tuday!!
There's no apostrophe on "ideas" ;)
What kind of friend goes to Romania for the summer?!?! :D ... I guess I didn't realize it was a problem to have somebody 1km away. I mean, you are on a bike, right! You could meet half-way. There is my idea. :D
Ever thought of uping to a mo-ped??
Like a switch shut off!! Where'd yall go??
Wow!! What happened to everyone??
I gots me some frost to scrape off of the dodge this morning!! Take care!!
Hey
Yesterday I changed my cars tires to snow/winter tires.
I found a "new" May 3rd 1999 Tornado video:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=ynHED4QWt5g
I hope the situation in CA eases as fast as possible, it's disastrous, I hate these fires as well as tsunamis.
Nice video Volker! Definitely brings back memories.
Do you know if anything happened in Greece the other day?
I don't recall seeing any reports on estofex.org
haha a "fire-nado" leave it up to the media to come up with another ridiculous made up term! http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/weather/2007/10/24/lklv.firenado.cnn anyway i wish we would have some weather that could possibly produce the other kind of nado around here(and no not a gustnado)
Forest fires and water contamination. Fires can drastically
affect the role of forests in the water supply Erosion after a fire can result in significant losses of topsoil, increases in the amount of sediments in the water (turbidity), and the release of large quantities of soluble chemicals.
Approximately 80% of the freshwater in the United States originates in the forests.