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marmar

(76,985 posts)
Tue Jul 20, 2021, 03:03 AM Jul 2021

How Bad Is the Bootleg Fire? It's Generating Its Own Weather.


(NYT). A towering cloud of hot air, smoke and moisture that reached airliner heights and spawned lightning. Wind-driven fronts of flame that have stampeded across the landscape, often leapfrogging firebreaks. Even, possibly, a rare fire tornado.

The Bootleg Fire in Southern Oregon, spurred by months of drought and last month’s blistering heat wave, is the largest wildfire so far this year in the United States, having already burned more than 340,000 acres, or 530 square miles, of forest and grasslands.

And at a time when climate change is causing wildfires to be larger and more intense, it’s also one of the most extreme, so big and hot that it’s affecting winds and otherwise disrupting the atmosphere. ......(more)

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/19/climate/bootleg-wildfire-weather.html to



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How Bad Is the Bootleg Fire? It's Generating Its Own Weather. (Original Post) marmar Jul 2021 OP
Yeah, they do that Hekate Jul 2021 #1
I still wonder Withywindle Jul 2021 #2
+1000 Duppers Jul 2021 #4
Why didn't they rake the forests like Trump recommended? keithbvadu2 Jul 2021 #3

Withywindle

(9,988 posts)
2. I still wonder
Tue Jul 20, 2021, 03:08 AM
Jul 2021

Where would we be if Al Gore had become President in January 2001? What if we'd had a President over 20 years ago who really understood how real the threat of climate change was?

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