Now, while your salary is still safe, is the time to pay off as much debt as you can. While details are impossible to figure out this far out, we will provide more data as we receive it. The West Coast was very wet in the winter of 1995-1996, while the Northeast and portions of the Southeast were slightly above average in precipitation. IndiaWhere is the wettest place on Earth and what is its average rainfall? This is the most inhospitable continent on Earth for several reasons, the most obvious of which is the cold temperatures. As the mid-level chart from October 11th shows above, the system brought its strongest impacts to the Dakotas and Northern Plains, though I suspect that won’t be completely the case this time around. Because the phrase United Kingdom is too long to type every time I mention the model, I will refer to this forecasting system as the UKMET, its official model name.

This season’s cycle is roughly 57 days, which is why we have highlighted December 7th as the connection date for this October 11 system. Now that we have been tracking the models for the past several days, and have taken the Lezak Recurring Cycle into account, we are getting some returns on possible tracks for this storm system. The GFS model has this storm system actually becoming two storm systems, though it is the northern-most one that drops snow across the Plains. The GFS model puts down totals in excess of one foot across North Dakota, much of Minnesota and a slight portion of Wisconsin. Lower amounts greet the other half of the Dakotas, the rest of Minnesota and the upper half of Wisconsin. This model puts down snow from Montana to Wisconsin, also allotting some snow to the Dakotas, Minnesota and Canada. Active suppression kept down the number fires and quickly extinguished most of the ones that did start. And we decided to expand our homes and recreation in to the forests, endangering the new residents and initiating many fires. Degraded forests, where huge amounts of “fuel”, enhanced by slash left on the ground by careless logging, became primed for huge, catastrophic fires.

But we can fix our forests, improving the fire/smoke situation today and preparing for the greater warming that is undoubtedly in our future. Warming from increasing greenhouse gases is surely making the situation a bit worse, and its impact will undoubtedly escalate when the real warming occurs later in this century. But the real show stopper was the Big Burn of 1910, which destroyed 3 million acres and killed 87 people, a vast area encompassing parts of eastern Washington, northern Idaho, western Montana, and parts of BC. Fire history and effects are described for grassland and shrubland ecosystems, and the range of forested communities by plant series: Ponderosa Pine, Douglas-fir/White fir/Grand fir, Lodgepole pine, Western hemlock/Western redcedar, and subalpine fir/Mountain hemlock. On many days that were otherwise clear the sun was almost entirely obscured by excessive smoke from forest fires, which extended over a great part of the eastern, as well as the entire western section of the state. There is a known correlation that indicates storm systems or ridges of high pressure over East Asia can be reciprocated in the United States 6-10 days after the event’s occurrence in East Asia.

This does look to be a rather substantial event, should current forecasts verify, with plowable snow extending across a wide majority of the far northern states. But today, global warming is a relatively small element of the current wildfire situation, particularly in the slow to warm Pacific Northwest. And the reason that current inhabitants of the region think smoke is an outlier is because of nearly a century of fire suppression in the West. Smoke and fire was part of life here in the Northwest before the period of near-total suppression began around approximately 1940. Native Americans started fires to encourage the productivity of the land. The early settlers of the region experienced one major fire (with lots of smoke) after another. At first, our technology and organization was not up to the job and major fires continued, such as the Dole Valley Fire of 1929 that burned over 300,000 acres in Clark and Skamania counties.