Something positive - U.S. forest fires have burned 28% of 10 year average

[OnlinePoker]

Sadly, as a British Columbian, 1.5% of provincial forests have already burned this year (1.46 million hectares out of 94.4 million hectares in total), and we're only half way through the season.

https://www.nifc.gov/fire-information/nfn

https://wildfiresituation.nrs.gov.bc.ca/currentStatistics

[MLAA]

1. Thank you for the link, I've never seen the National Interagency Fire Center site before.

Well worth bookmarking it.

[hatrack]

2. It's still July

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[2naSalit]

3. Amazingly...

Our fire season - now referred to as 'year' - is just beginning with the first fires starting up in the past 50 hours or so from lightning. We had a big wave of smoke pass through yesterday. So far less than a dozen fires between here and the coast. That will probably change in the next 48 hours, though.

What is happening in Canada is what is our normal as of the last couple decades. I'm glad it's coming late this year. And I have empathy with those to the north, it's awful and I'm saddened that they are losing so much forest so quickly.

[NickB79]

4. The heavy snowfall moistened the landscape and blunted the spring burns in the US West

But the flip side is that extra the moisture has promoted new growth, which will become kindling as soon as the West has another poor snow season.