Smoky Skies

[Kano]

For those of you living in dry, burning areas ---

Be careful out there!

Last night, air quality went from not-so-good to smelling like fire in no time, when dry lightning and a wind storm went through, and this morning, the light's the wrong color -- grass looks like I'm wearing brown tint sunglasses!

(looking at the National Interagency Fire Center site -- www.nifc.gov -- several thousand acres started burning around us last night, the wind has blown in lots of smoke, and our foothills/mountains have stopped it all like a wall!)

I'm at work today, told DH to stay off his bike. He walked out onto the deck and said it was too stinky to ride. Good thing. Now I don't have to worry about him today! Oh no, what if he decides to mow the lawn?????

Karen in Boise

[LBTC]

Kano, very cool that there is an interagency fire center there, but you do have a lot of fires in Idaho! It appears that one of them has crossed the border into BC, too.

Sending cooling butterflies with rain under their wings to dampen everything and so those forecast dry lightning storms don't cause even more fires!

H&B
~T~

[Tater]

EEEEK! I read this after doing my ride this morning! I thought the hills looked a bit hazy, now I know why! If it isn't the brush fires, it is the heat. Grrrr!

[Kano]

LTBC, we have fire planes, the ones that dump chemicals and water and whatever taking off from the airport near us much of the summer every year. I think fire season is off to an early start this year, and I don't think we're going to get much moisture for a while, unfortunately.

As Tater mentioned, we have had unseasonable heat too -- so much for my plan to start commuting to work this past week! The ride home is up hill and not necessarily good for this kid when it's 105 or more! I did ride on Tuesday, and that was the first time I've wished for a bottle cage on my bike: for head water! (camelbaks don't do that well!)

Karen in Boise

[RoadRaven]

Wow, I have been so very busy I haven't had time to watch the news so I have missed this (yes, we always get news about weather, fires etc happening in US, UK and Oz - but I bet you didn't know we had tornados in Taranaki last week that wrecked a few houses!)

So, anyway, I'm actually chiming in to say be safe... we're in the middle of winter here, so quite a way from the danger of summer fires... but they do scare me, and I hope the skies clear and the fires retreat and you are safe and can get out on your bikes again breathing easy...

[Kano]

Wow! now there's over 140,000 acres burning around us!

Not in sight of my place, and probably not Tater's, but that's a lot of acres making crud in our skies!

Karen in Boise