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No snow in western Oregon, but winter has finally arrived here in that we'll be seeing freezing temps overnight all week. (Brrrrrrrrrrr!) I finally had to put those outdoor garden faucet covers on, usually I have to do it much earlier in winter.
 
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No snow in western Oregon, but winter has finally arrived here in that we'll be seeing freezing temps overnight all week. (Brrrrrrrrrrr!) I finally had to put those outdoor garden faucet covers on, usually I have to do it much earlier in winter.
Yep, after you, its rolling over us, plus we have an inversion too.
 
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Yep, after you, its rolling over us, plus we have an inversion too.
I had to google what a meteorological inversion is, evidently inversions can cause poor air quality? Well, that's not very nice! :mad:

EDIT: I have just learned that we're experiencing an inversion as well (I never paid attention to what an inversion actually is), it's very foggy here and there's a poor air quality advisory till Friday afternoon. So not only is it cold and foggy, but we'll have crap air until it starts raining again or something - booooooo!
 
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It rained for about 36 hours straight here; rain in winter is normal in my parts, but I can't remember the last time it had rained that much. I'm loving it cause I don't have to work outdoors, so more rain please, we need our rivers and lakes filled to the max in preparation for the hot summer!
 
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Insane temps in the Mile High City! Over the next several days, high temps in the mid to upper 80s with lows in the 50s (the averages for this time of year are 59 & 30!). I've lived here all my life for several decades & have never seen temps like this before in March. People today were wearing tank tops & shorts. I even had to use the AC in my car today .

And this weather pattern has gotten this meteorologist a little freaked out. Lol

View: https://youtube.com/shorts/d1pDmOOWS9k?si=uEkieO5Z78unK5lK
 
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Insane temps in the Mile High City! Over the next several days, high temps in the mid to upper 80s with lows in the 50s (the averages for this time of year are 59 & 30!). I've lived here all my life for several decades & have never seen temps like this before in March. People today were wearing tank tops & shorts. I even had to use the AC in my car today .

And this weather pattern has gotten this meteorologist a little freaked out. Lol

View: https://youtube.com/shorts/d1pDmOOWS9k?si=uEkieO5Z78unK5lK
I've been able to get all kinds of outdoor projects done (or at least got started on them) because it was sunny and the temps were in the mid-70s in Eugene this week - I always save pressure washing the fence and fixing the sprinklers for late spring when it's warm enough, not barely the beginning of it!

Thankfully it's supposed to cool off into the low 50s by Saturday, and hopefully this is just a weird meteorological bump and not something we'll have to get used to. :(
 
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These situations are endlessly complicated. Defensible space strategies are not always practical because of the in frequency of fire. Also small rural communities have small resource pools, often have volunteer fire departments and don't have massive specialized crew for wildfires and chemical fires, Residential and other structure fires are what they train most for. Fires like these are very difficult
View: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=s78bMTWNfGU
 
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These situations are endlessly complicated. Defensible space strategies are not always practical because of the in frequency of fire. Also small rural communities have small resource pools, often have volunteer fire departments and don't have massive specialized crew for wildfires and chemical fires, Residential and other structure fires are what they train most for. Fires like these are very difficult
View: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=s78bMTWNfGU

No major prison population to incentivize as in CA?
 
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No major prison population to incentivize as in CA?
It wouldn't matter. @75 mph winds, relative humility at 15% ..fire normally slows at night these fires are bucking data..the fires didn't originated from arson, downed power lines, etc. This was problem areas that were part of a prescribed burn by US Forrest Service and their schedule and acts of nature crossed. It happens, it happened in New Mexico in @2022, whatever your skill set is ..dry conditions, @70+ winds..no chance.. Multiple states in dangerous, challenging conditions.. Fire fighting aircraft are not normally long range.. Helicopters that are available don't have payload.. Fires are hitting places that had recent snow.. Not really helping..
I have lived in Western US for many years, lived in other areas of Baja that have wildfire events, fatal human flaw is to think that man can defeat nature.. It's certainly sad but it's a battle of containment not victory.. Everyone wants to make it digestible.. Nature always win, no victory in the human column for wins and losses.
View: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=laI-dOeFdUI&pp=ygUObmVicmFza2EgZmlyZXM%3D

If these firefighters can't stop it, it can't be stopped
 
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It's raining in Eugene right now (yay!), and tonight it's supposed to go down into the low 30s. Pretty much everything has started blossoming already, so if there is an overnight frost now the plants will likely die or be damaged. (A few years back we had a late frost and local farmers lost a lot of crop, so this early warm weather can be pretty destructive.)
 
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It wouldn't matter. @75 mph winds, relative humility at 15% ..fire normally slows at night these fires are bucking data..the fires didn't originated from arson, downed power lines, etc. This was problem areas that were part of a prescribed burn by US Forrest Service and their schedule and acts of nature crossed. It happens, it happened in New Mexico in @2022, whatever your skill set is ..dry conditions, @70+ winds..no chance.. Multiple states in dangerous, challenging conditions.. Fire fighting aircraft are not normally long range.. Helicopters that are available don't have payload.. Fires are hitting places that had recent snow.. Not really helping..
I have lived in Western US for many years, lived in other areas of Baja that have wildfire events, fatal human flaw is to think that man can defeat nature.. It's certainly sad but it's a battle of containment not victory.. Everyone wants to make it digestible.. Nature always win, no victory in the human column for wins and losses.
View: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=laI-dOeFdUI&pp=ygUObmVicmFza2EgZmlyZXM%3D

If these firefighters can't stop it, it can't be stopped
We get our share of annual wildfires in the region, and each time you turn on the news it's not about a fire being easily put out, it's more a process of containment because it's just too much, and this goes on for pretty much the entire summer. One fire is put out and another one starts, evacuations have become more common... a few years ago a gorgeous area by the McKenzie River where my dad and I used to fish had to be evacuated as the wildfire was just raging, the area completely burned down. That was a huge bummer because it'll take years and years before it's back to its previous shape, nature can certainly make a person feel small.