[Steve_Seattle]

I live in Western Washington, and our summer was a bit cooler and wetter than normal, at least until about mid July. The warm weather then extended until about the second week of September, which is normal. During the summer, we had one or two days over 90 degrees, which is about normal.

The winter and spring were wetter than normal. There was nothing here to suggest that unusual weather caused by climate change had anything to do with the fires, despite what Gov. Inslee claims. In fact, about a month ago, the Director of Public lands said that few if any of the fires were started by lightning strikes, and most appeared to have been caused by human carelessness (cigarettes, campfires, etc.), or - in a couple of cases - arson.

[Don Corleone]

Marxist pols were mainly responsible.

[fireman15]

The only thing unusual here in Washington is that we got some strong extremely dry easterly winds caused by a cold front in Canada. These winds dried out the growth from the slightly wetter and cooler than normal winter, and spring and created a dangerous situation and created a window of opportunity for malcontents.

[angry elephant]

I live in Western Washington, and our summer was a bit cooler and wetter than normal, at least until about mid July. The warm weather then extended until about the second week of September, which is normal. During the summer, we had one or two days over 90 degrees, which is about normal.”

I also live in Western Washington. The same as last summer it was a long time before we got any summer. If anything, the summers have been shorter and colder than in the past. I have not even been able to grow good tomatoes for the last couple of year. Summer takes too long to come on and by the time they ripen they are mush.

Then we got the southern wind blowing the smoke up from Oregon. Just as in Washington state, Oregon does not maintain the forests. The underbrush grows, choking the forest service roads, and so there is a lot of dry tinder for various insane anarchists to start fires. We are poor stewards of the forests which are largely federally and state owned. In southern states where more land is privately owned they do not have these wildfires.