Northwest FIRES. 100s of thousands of acres on fire

Wild Fire Today and Others ^ | 9/3/17 | various

[goodnesswins]

http://www.oregonlive.com/pacific-northwest-news/index.ssf/2017/08/more_than_320000_acres_burning.html

http://www.apnewsarchive.com/2017/Wildfires-are-threatening-thousands-of-homes-and-hindering-travel-in-the-Pacific-Northwest/id-0325ce4125ed474c82cd12e045308e20

http://www.arcgis.com/home/webmap/viewer.html?webmap=ed0a7dad32fe4848b20c6f91c74c79ea#!

http://wildfiretoday.com/2017/08/28/wildfire-smoke-map-august-28-2017/

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2017/09/02/irritating-smoke-from-wildfires-choking-us-west-turning-lives-upside-down.html

http://wildfiretoday.com/2017/09/01/satellite-photo-wildfires-in-the-northwest/

MONTANA http://www.kare11.com/news/lightning-sparks-40-more-montana-wildfires/470081743

[Grampa Dave]

The smoke is impacting many areas in Northern California:

[Cold Heart]

News says possible misuse of fireworks. Police have a suspect

[goodnesswins]

South of I84 in Columbia Gorge evacuated- ( south part of Cascade Locks Level3 Evac)
Best Western Cascade Locks guests told to leave (N of I-84 under level2 evac)

[TigersEye]

The smoke is a lot worse today.

Above: Wildfire smoke map, 5:24 a.m. MDT September 4, 2017. The icons represent the locations of some of the large uncontained wildfires.

It has shifted south since that map was made this morning. I'm in northern CO in a dark green area on the map but the smoke is so thick now it must be equivalent to yellow or orange at this time. Pine smoke is nasty stuff.

[2111USMC]

Thanks for posting.

We have a heavy yellowish high altitude haze here in eastern Iowa.

Most of it coming from the Canadian and Alaskan fires.

[TigersEye]

High altitude sounds good to me! {{{cough}}} lol

I’m in the Front Range mountains of CO and this stuff is hugging the ground here. It looks like car exhaust. I can barely see the mountain less than two miles south of here.

Sympathies for those enduring worse conditions.

[Billthedrill]

Boy howdy, it got here this morning! Just south of Sandpoint, ID, sunrise was a dull orange and I can't see the other side of the lake, only 1.5 miles distant. My next-door neighbors were spending Labor day at their campsite and just pulled out because you can barely breathe if you exert yourself. Last year they were rained out. Some folks just can't buy a break.

Got the cabin buttoned up because it smells like an ash tray outside. I'll probably run the furnace fan later to take advantage of the filter. I'm stuck with FReeping and drinking beer all day. Dang the luck.

[JMJJR]

I’m in Boulder, I can’t see the Flatirons, which are less than a mile to the west.

It doesn’t smell smokey, but visibility is way down, reminds me of the Yellowstone fire.

[TigersEye]

My next-door neighbors were spending Labor day at their campsite and just pulled out because you can barely breathe if you exert yourself.

I can understand that. If it weren't for the smoke today would be a great day to get some outside work done. I would regret it if I tried. As widespread as the smoke is I don't know where your neighbors will go to get relief though.

[TigersEye]

I can just barely smell the smoke now and again. Experience has shown me that it’s getting pretty bad when that’s possible.

If it’s like this through the night I will wake up tomorrow with a nasty sinus headache. I don’t normally have sinus problems at all but snoring on pine smoke will do it.

And that mountain is just a feint silhouette now.

[Billthedrill]

I don't know where your neighbors will go to get relief though.

Yeah, it's really too bad. They open the summer with a three-day camping trip every Memorial Day and close it out with another on Labor Day. Those used to be loud all-night bashes with their 20-something friends but the last few years their kids have grown up enough to be the principal focus, so they're a lot more fun to have around. And it's real quiet past 10:00 PM!

I asked them that very question. "Inside" the wife said.

[TigersEye]

That’s about all you can do.
Stay inside, move as little as possible, FReep and drink beer.

I’m not sure I can operate that far outside the box! LOL

[goodnesswins]

Thanks for posting...hazy here but wind is picking up in the WillametteValley...good for us, bad for Gorge and other fires

[goodnesswins]

I-84 now closed..Eagle Creek fire grown from 3000 to 5500 acres...level 3 evacuation for Warrenton and Dodson...

[2111USMC]

Now that the sun has gone down and the temperatures have dropped you can REALLY smell the smoke. The moon looks like a bright orange.