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Montana & Wyo smoke - Kurt - 09-04-2024
Don,
I just got back from a 2 week trip to Glacier Nat Park for my Grand Daughters wedding.
The whole area up in Wyo, MT and parts of SD I drove through is covered with a heavy smoke haze that in spots I could not see the Mountain peaks 6 miles away.
I hope that the fires in your locations are under control. Seen some fires NW Wyo and west MT. lots of black ground up the hills.
Kurt
RE: Montana & Wyo smoke - Don McDowell - 09-04-2024
Lots of fires some of them ranged big
As of a week or so ago there’s been 400k acres burnt. And more every day
Hopefully we get the good old equinox snow that drops a foot of wer snow
RE: Montana & Wyo smoke - Kurt - 09-05-2024
I saw a lot of black starting along the roads and working out I think from cigarettes thrown out the window. I don't think heat lightning is doing all of this mess.
We had high south winds that made the flags vertical, guessing maybe in the 20 mph velocity that will move the fire pretty fast in that dry grass.
RE: Montana & Wyo smoke - Don McDowell - 09-05-2024
The small fires along the hiways come from a number of things but the majority of these big fires are lightning caused. The temps have been in the 90’s and higher with 40 and 50 mph winds. With the spring growth we had and now the tinder dry conditions it doesn’t take long to burn several hundred acres
RE: Montana & Wyo smoke - Kurt - 09-05-2024
I hope you get some rain.
I was in the high elevations and got snow enough to cover the ground but it didn't last long.
Going through SD the daytime temp was over 100º with a good south wind and the grass as far I could see was dead dry.
I don't think that I have seen it so dry in all the years I drove through that area going to the Q.
Even the grass hoppers did not splatter the wind shield like usual.
RE: Montana & Wyo smoke - Don McDowell - 09-05-2024
They said that snow on Togwatee Pass covering the Fish Creek fire didn't do a lot to slow it. The USFS really dropped the ball when they shut off roads and stopped the logging. With all that beetle kill timber in the forests now they're all a big tinder box.
Hoping for the good ol fashioned equinox snow dumper.
Some places have been getting pretty good rains a few miles in either direction not much. It's the same drought we've been going thru since 97.
RE: Montana & Wyo smoke - Kurt - 09-05-2024
Well that was what burned at Medicine bow a while back. They should let them in and log those brown trees. That is what's burning in CA now.