[Peter ODonnell]

Yes I’m going to be right underneath it, and it’s already quite hot so we’re expecting even hotter.

Mind you I am not so sure about 1,200 years, it was pretty hot in 2003 as well.

The wildfire risk is increasing 90% due to greater human activity (and a certain amount of arson) and 10% due to any change in the climate. There have been slightly more moderate climate intervals in the past but most of this region is semi-arid to desert and always has been (since the ice age at least), what has changed the most is that people are now crowded into the region and the most popular lifestyle is “exurban” meaning that people have settled a lot of dry areas around forest margins. It’s no wonder there are so many wildfire emergencies in this region.

[Myrddin]

Pocatello has highs of 100 to 103 coming next Mon/Tue/Wed. 103 is the highest I've experienced in the last 20 years. -27F was the lowest. It will be time to walk the fence line with a hammer to tap all the nails back in soon.

[bert]

Perhaps the past decades were anomaly and the return of desertification is a return toward the mean