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Fires in Northern Alberta
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Old Rocks
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People fleeing wild fires pack northern Alberta communities
EDMONTON - Hundreds of people from northern Alberta have joined the 7,000 Slave Lake residents who have fled wildfires and are now in evacuation centres.
In Grande Prairie, around 300 kilometres west of Slave Lake, 200 evacuees are expected to arrive from nearby communities this weekend.
The Grande Prairie Inn is packed full of evacuees, with 210 members of Whitefish Lake First Nation and 25 Slave Lake families temporarily taking refuge there.
The evacuation of Slave Lake left families scattered around the province, and some are still moving into hotel rooms and evacuation centres, David Olinger, a spokesman for the City of Grande Prairie, said Friday.
“We haven’t been told when they can actually all flock back to their communities.”
While hotels expect an influx in evacuees, Grande Prairie relief centres are full of donations.
EDMONTON - Hundreds of people from northern Alberta have joined the 7,000 Slave Lake residents who have fled wildfires and are now in evacuation centres.
In Grande Prairie, around 300 kilometres west of Slave Lake, 200 evacuees are expected to arrive from nearby communities this weekend.
The Grande Prairie Inn is packed full of evacuees, with 210 members of Whitefish Lake First Nation and 25 Slave Lake families temporarily taking refuge there.
The evacuation of Slave Lake left families scattered around the province, and some are still moving into hotel rooms and evacuation centres, David Olinger, a spokesman for the City of Grande Prairie, said Friday.
“We haven’t been told when they can actually all flock back to their communities.”
While hotels expect an influx in evacuees, Grande Prairie relief centres are full of donations.
The official version of forest fires courtesy of "National Resources Canada"..."Fire plays an important role in most forest ecosystems in Canada. As these ecosystems have evolved over the last 10,000 to 15,000 years (since the last glacial retreat at the end of the last ice age) fire has helped to maintain health and diversity of forests". Was that a can of beer the guy was holding in front of the charred remains of a house? Legend confirmed.
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I hate to break this to you, Rocks in the Head, but fires aren't weather or climate.
Old Rocks
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Raging fires stop oil and gas operations
CALGARY — Suspension of oil and gas production is spreading across northern Alberta as wildfires rage out of control.
Oil and gas producers Monday evacuated workers and closed heavy oil facilities, pipelines and processing plants as emergency teams battled wind-fuelled fires that now cover more than 30,000 hectares.
Canadian Natural Resources pulled 1,300 workers from two camps associated with its Horizon oilsands project outside of Fort McMurray as flames burned within 150 metres of one of its lodges.
"We have no actual fire on our site per se, it's still a ways away, but we're just taking precautionary measures," vice chair John Langille told the Herald.
Operations at Canadian Natural's Horizon oilsands project have been at a virtual standstill since an explosion ripped through its upgrader in January, injuring five workers.
Read more: Raging fires stop oil and gas operations
CALGARY — Suspension of oil and gas production is spreading across northern Alberta as wildfires rage out of control.
Oil and gas producers Monday evacuated workers and closed heavy oil facilities, pipelines and processing plants as emergency teams battled wind-fuelled fires that now cover more than 30,000 hectares.
Canadian Natural Resources pulled 1,300 workers from two camps associated with its Horizon oilsands project outside of Fort McMurray as flames burned within 150 metres of one of its lodges.
"We have no actual fire on our site per se, it's still a ways away, but we're just taking precautionary measures," vice chair John Langille told the Herald.
Operations at Canadian Natural's Horizon oilsands project have been at a virtual standstill since an explosion ripped through its upgrader in January, injuring five workers.
Read more: Raging fires stop oil and gas operations
Quantum Windbag
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Tell me something.
Why do you keep posting about fires and earthquakes like they are caused by global warming? Is the air so hot that the grass spontaneously cumbusts? Or did the snow on the ground cause them?
Old Rocks
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Tell me something.
Why do you keep posting about fires and earthquakes like they are caused by global warming? Is the air so hot that the grass spontaneously cumbusts? Or did the snow on the ground cause them?
Tell me, Windbag, why don't you think that I am interested in many areas of the environment?
And, no, I have never posted anything stating that earthquakes had anything to do with global warming. However, the icequakes have a great deal to do with global warming.
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As for your other idiotic nonsense, what else would we expect of you.
Quantum Windbag
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Tell me something.
Why do you keep posting about fires and earthquakes like they are caused by global warming? Is the air so hot that the grass spontaneously cumbusts? Or did the snow on the ground cause them?
Tell me, Windbag, why don't you think that I am interested in many areas of the environment?
And, no, I have never posted anything stating that earthquakes had anything to do with global warming. However, the icequakes have a great deal to do with global warming.
Viewing a thread - Icequakes on Greenland
As for your other idiotic nonsense, what else would we expect of you.
Because all you post about is bad things. If you were actually interested in the environment you would talk about wonderful it is.
Want to ask another stupid question?
Old Rocks
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It still is not getting any better.
CTV Edmonton - Battle continues with wildfires in northern Alta. - CTV News
The Richardson back country fire is the second largest fire to burn in the province in several decades, it's burned more than 390,000 hectares, and is still out of control. The blaze stretches from approximately 60 kilometres north of Fort McMurray, to Richardson Lake.
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Changing wind conditions have caused some areas to be blanketed in smoke, the conditions have pushed some oilsands worksites near Fort McMurray to evacuate over the past few days.
According to some workers, conditions were becoming intolerable.
"[We] couldn't see 30 feet in front of us," Kyle Noordman, a worker on the Kearl site said to CTV News. "Some days it was very very bad."
"Guys are getting sick a little bit," said George Waltmans of Fluor Engineering. "Some of the guys had to go to first aid for coughing and throwing up stuff and what not."
Shell evacuated all non-essential workers from its Albian oilsands site last week. Some CNRL employees were also forced from a site in May and Imperial Oil's Kearl oilsands plant has been notified the smoky conditions could get worse.
CTV Edmonton - Battle continues with wildfires in northern Alta. - CTV News
The Richardson back country fire is the second largest fire to burn in the province in several decades, it's burned more than 390,000 hectares, and is still out of control. The blaze stretches from approximately 60 kilometres north of Fort McMurray, to Richardson Lake.
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Changing wind conditions have caused some areas to be blanketed in smoke, the conditions have pushed some oilsands worksites near Fort McMurray to evacuate over the past few days.
According to some workers, conditions were becoming intolerable.
"[We] couldn't see 30 feet in front of us," Kyle Noordman, a worker on the Kearl site said to CTV News. "Some days it was very very bad."
"Guys are getting sick a little bit," said George Waltmans of Fluor Engineering. "Some of the guys had to go to first aid for coughing and throwing up stuff and what not."
Shell evacuated all non-essential workers from its Albian oilsands site last week. Some CNRL employees were also forced from a site in May and Imperial Oil's Kearl oilsands plant has been notified the smoky conditions could get worse.
Old Rocks
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Fourth largest in history, and it is early June. Seems that either you are seeing flooding, or things are burning up like it was August. But nothing is happening, nothing to see here folks.
Reporting from Albuquerque—
Wildfires raged in eastern Arizona, burning tens of thousands of acres and sending smoke more than 200 miles away to New Mexico, where thousands of residents woke to find a fine layer of ash on their cars and a heavy haze hanging in the air.
Calls from panicky residents flooded Albuquerque's 911 emergency center Thursday night when strong winds blew smoke from the blazes into the metro area, dramatically limiting visibility. Many thought there was a fire in the Sandia Mountains foothills or in the cottonwood forest along the Rio Grande, said Darren White, the city's public safety director.
"We were dispatching firetrucks throughout the city," said White, who described seeing ash drifting like snowflakes in his headlights as he drove to an evening news conference.
"You could cut it with a knife," White said. "It felt like the conditions at the perimeter of a large fire."
Officials on Friday issued an air quality alert and urged people — particularly those with respiratory problems — to stay indoors, keep their windows closed and not run their swamp coolers, White said.
The Wallow fire, a 106,000-acre blaze burning in the Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest in Arizona, was the prime culprit. That fire forced the evacuation of the town of Alpine, according to an incident Web page maintained by the U.S. Forest Service. According to statistics kept by the Forest Service, the blaze was the fourth-largest wildfire in state history.
Reporting from Albuquerque—
Wildfires raged in eastern Arizona, burning tens of thousands of acres and sending smoke more than 200 miles away to New Mexico, where thousands of residents woke to find a fine layer of ash on their cars and a heavy haze hanging in the air.
Calls from panicky residents flooded Albuquerque's 911 emergency center Thursday night when strong winds blew smoke from the blazes into the metro area, dramatically limiting visibility. Many thought there was a fire in the Sandia Mountains foothills or in the cottonwood forest along the Rio Grande, said Darren White, the city's public safety director.
"We were dispatching firetrucks throughout the city," said White, who described seeing ash drifting like snowflakes in his headlights as he drove to an evening news conference.
"You could cut it with a knife," White said. "It felt like the conditions at the perimeter of a large fire."
Officials on Friday issued an air quality alert and urged people — particularly those with respiratory problems — to stay indoors, keep their windows closed and not run their swamp coolers, White said.
The Wallow fire, a 106,000-acre blaze burning in the Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest in Arizona, was the prime culprit. That fire forced the evacuation of the town of Alpine, according to an incident Web page maintained by the U.S. Forest Service. According to statistics kept by the Forest Service, the blaze was the fourth-largest wildfire in state history.
Old Rocks
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Meanwhile, in Texas.
PhotoBlog - Wildfires destroy homes in Texas Panhandle
Over One Million Acres Destroyed In Texas Wildfires
Since April 6 wildfires have burned over 1 million acres in Texas. NASA just posted an incredible image of the damage, which it blames on weather:
The image illustrates one of the primary reasons fire danger is extremely high in Texas: strong winds. Warm temperatures, dry vegetation for fuel, and low humidity are also contributing to creating hazardous fire conditions. Normally a rainy month, March 2011 was the driest March on record, said the Texas Forest Service. Plentiful rains in 2010 spurred grass and shrubs to grow. The recent lack of rain, warm temperatures and low humidity has turned all of that vegetation into dry tinder, creating unprecedented fire danger.
Read more: Over One Million Acres Destroyed In Texas Wildfires
PhotoBlog - Wildfires destroy homes in Texas Panhandle
Over One Million Acres Destroyed In Texas Wildfires
Since April 6 wildfires have burned over 1 million acres in Texas. NASA just posted an incredible image of the damage, which it blames on weather:
The image illustrates one of the primary reasons fire danger is extremely high in Texas: strong winds. Warm temperatures, dry vegetation for fuel, and low humidity are also contributing to creating hazardous fire conditions. Normally a rainy month, March 2011 was the driest March on record, said the Texas Forest Service. Plentiful rains in 2010 spurred grass and shrubs to grow. The recent lack of rain, warm temperatures and low humidity has turned all of that vegetation into dry tinder, creating unprecedented fire danger.
Read more: Over One Million Acres Destroyed In Texas Wildfires
Old Rocks
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Saskatchewan wildfire forces emergency airlift - Saskatchewan - CBC News
Most of the environment that I have admired and walked in is in danger at present. A danger created by humankind. By our own actions we are destroying that which so many of us love.
Most of the environment that I have admired and walked in is in danger at present. A danger created by humankind. By our own actions we are destroying that which so many of us love.
dilloduck
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Saskatchewan wildfire forces emergency airlift - Saskatchewan - CBC News
Most of the environment that I have admired and walked in is in danger at present. A danger created by humankind. By our own actions we are destroying that which so many of us love.
omg--the drama is gonna kill me
Old Rocks
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Yep. Arizona fire up to 325 square miles, smoke from it is causing haze in Iowa.
Dr. Jeff Masters' WunderBlog : Weather Underground for iPhone
Record rains in California
A large and unusually intense low pressure system moved inland over California over the weekend, bringing large areas of the state rains unheard of in June. According to our weather historian, Christopher C. Burt, rainfall at Mining Ridge on the Big Sur coast totaled 8.31" Sunday, which, if verified, would be California's heaviest 1-day June rainstorm on record. According to the document "Historic Rainstorms in California" Dept. of Water Resources, Aug. 1997, the previous maximum June daily rainfall was 5.83" at Forni Ridge on June 18, 1982. San Francisco had its 2nd greatest June 1-day rainfall, going back to 1850, and both the San Francisco and Oakland airport have now had their rainiest Junes on record. Rainfall at Santa Barbara Airport yesterday totaled 1.24 inches, the wettest June day there on record (previous record: 0.51" on June 5, 2009.) The 1.38"of rain so far this June has made it the wettest June in recorded history at Santa Barbara Airport, going back to 1941.
Exceptional heat in the South
A sizzling June heat wave set record high temperatures across much of Texas, Louisiana, Alabama, Mississippi, and the Florida Panhandle on Sunday. The high temperature at the Houston, Texas airport hit 105 degrees, the warmest temperature ever recorded in the month of June (old record: 104 degrees on June 24th and June 26th, 2009.) The earliest Houston ever recorded a temperature of 105 degrees prior to Sunday was July 26th, 1954. Records for Houston date back to 1891. There have been only 15 days in which the temperature has reached or exceeded 105 degrees in Houston:
4 - 1909
1 - 1954
2 - 1962
3 - 1980
5 - 2000
So far this month, new maximum temperature records in Houston have been established on four out of the first five days. Galveston and Houston both crushed their previous record high temperature for the day (June 5th) by a remarkable seven degrees. Residents can expect another day of triple-digit heat today, thanks to the upper level ridge of high pressure parked over the state. Houston will likely break the old record of 98°F for the date.
NODC Coastal Water Temperature Guide
Dauphin Island AL
Station ID: 8735180
Recent Water Temperature:
89.1°F (31.7°C)
Observation Date and Time:
Tue, 07 Jun 2011 02:48:00 GMT
June Monthly Mean Temperature:
82°F (27.8°C)
Station Information
Dr. Jeff Masters' WunderBlog : Weather Underground for iPhone
Record rains in California
A large and unusually intense low pressure system moved inland over California over the weekend, bringing large areas of the state rains unheard of in June. According to our weather historian, Christopher C. Burt, rainfall at Mining Ridge on the Big Sur coast totaled 8.31" Sunday, which, if verified, would be California's heaviest 1-day June rainstorm on record. According to the document "Historic Rainstorms in California" Dept. of Water Resources, Aug. 1997, the previous maximum June daily rainfall was 5.83" at Forni Ridge on June 18, 1982. San Francisco had its 2nd greatest June 1-day rainfall, going back to 1850, and both the San Francisco and Oakland airport have now had their rainiest Junes on record. Rainfall at Santa Barbara Airport yesterday totaled 1.24 inches, the wettest June day there on record (previous record: 0.51" on June 5, 2009.) The 1.38"of rain so far this June has made it the wettest June in recorded history at Santa Barbara Airport, going back to 1941.
Exceptional heat in the South
A sizzling June heat wave set record high temperatures across much of Texas, Louisiana, Alabama, Mississippi, and the Florida Panhandle on Sunday. The high temperature at the Houston, Texas airport hit 105 degrees, the warmest temperature ever recorded in the month of June (old record: 104 degrees on June 24th and June 26th, 2009.) The earliest Houston ever recorded a temperature of 105 degrees prior to Sunday was July 26th, 1954. Records for Houston date back to 1891. There have been only 15 days in which the temperature has reached or exceeded 105 degrees in Houston:
4 - 1909
1 - 1954
2 - 1962
3 - 1980
5 - 2000
So far this month, new maximum temperature records in Houston have been established on four out of the first five days. Galveston and Houston both crushed their previous record high temperature for the day (June 5th) by a remarkable seven degrees. Residents can expect another day of triple-digit heat today, thanks to the upper level ridge of high pressure parked over the state. Houston will likely break the old record of 98°F for the date.
NODC Coastal Water Temperature Guide
Dauphin Island AL
Station ID: 8735180
Recent Water Temperature:
89.1°F (31.7°C)
Observation Date and Time:
Tue, 07 Jun 2011 02:48:00 GMT
June Monthly Mean Temperature:
82°F (27.8°C)
Station Information
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