Damage In Tolland Posted March 23, 2012 Share Posted March 23, 2012 Fires are running rampant across SNe the last few days and as RH goes down and winds kick up...we should see this continue over the next few weeks..many brush fires popping up, red flag warnings..Sunday rain event looks like a miss.. we really need rain or whole forests will start going up. Let's use this thread to discuss fires and report on them Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Modfan Posted March 23, 2012 Share Posted March 23, 2012 Thanks for the thread Kevin, as a FF I am keeping a close eye on the weather. Am puzzeled that eastern CT has been relatively quiet even though its been awhile since we had any precip, yet areas that just lost snow cover in the past two weeks are having the problems ? Happy I havent had to carry a indian pack through the woods thus far! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tropopause_Fold Posted March 23, 2012 Share Posted March 23, 2012 the good thing is winds haven't been too bad thus far Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tropopause_Fold Posted March 23, 2012 Share Posted March 23, 2012 and the last several days dews were in the 50s and we had all of that morning low level garbage over most of SNE. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoastalWx Posted March 23, 2012 Share Posted March 23, 2012 Heavy heavy fire. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tropopause_Fold Posted March 23, 2012 Share Posted March 23, 2012 Heavy heavy fire. this is a sbox_wx thread. he loves fire. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoastalWx Posted March 23, 2012 Share Posted March 23, 2012 this is a sbox_wx thread. he loves fire. I'm sure he starts some of the marsh grass fires by me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoastalWx Posted March 23, 2012 Share Posted March 23, 2012 Days and days of flames. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tamarack Posted March 23, 2012 Share Posted March 23, 2012 Not trying to hijack the thread northward, but NNE may be in even worse shape. Snow cover is gone except for underneath evergreens in the far north and mts, and we've had dews 30s to near 40 during the heatwave with 40F+ diurnal ranges. The soil is still wet but the leaf litter is cornflakes dry, and today we have a moderate breeze after a week of light zephyrs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ctsnowstorm628 Posted March 23, 2012 Share Posted March 23, 2012 Not trying to hijack the thread northward, but NNE may be in even worse shape. Snow cover is gone except for underneath evergreens in the far north and mts, and we've had dews 30s to near 40 during the heatwave with 40F+ diurnal ranges. The soil is still wet but the leaf litter is cornflakes dry, and today we have a moderate breeze after a week of light zephyrs. Much worse. Not even close. especially higher elevations that didn't have early morning fog and have their snow melted (around 1500'). My room mate is a FF and every dept. up here is on high alert. Dry, mud season is done (for now) and winds gusting to 30kts now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Damage In Tolland Posted March 23, 2012 Author Share Posted March 23, 2012 My biggest fear is this mild Nw flow continues for weeks and this turns into the worst fire season in Sne history Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WXheights Posted March 23, 2012 Share Posted March 23, 2012 Are you southern New englanders seeing leaf out yet. whats reall really weird is that we have red flag conditions today <20% humidity plenbty of dry feuls like we might see in typical april, but now the recent heat has boosted "leafout" here on the southern facing slopes. Many Maples unfurling leaves.. With colder weather dampening down accelerated "springing" around the corner into next week its quite amazing to see early leafout so quick. Anybody else. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powderfreak Posted March 23, 2012 Share Posted March 23, 2012 Is this just a SNE thread or can we post fire pictures from NNE in here? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WXheights Posted March 23, 2012 Share Posted March 23, 2012 Is this just a SNE thread or can we post fire pictures from NNE in here? oops hey powder freak you got pix - did you see any of your maples unfurling leaves? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ginx snewx Posted March 23, 2012 Share Posted March 23, 2012 My biggest fear is this mild Nw flow continues for weeks and this turns into the worst fire season in Sne history Full leaf out by Mid April still on? If so then worst fire season cancel. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tamarack Posted March 23, 2012 Share Posted March 23, 2012 The early warmth might not make the spring fire season any longer (the lack of rain certainly would), but it's several weeks to a month ahead of schedule. Dews down around 10 in Maine and N.NH, all but the mts are red-flagged within GYX CWA. Fortunately, the wind goes away for a while after today, but Tues-Wed look like a return to breezes and low RH, albeit 15-20F cooler than today. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ctsnowstorm628 Posted March 23, 2012 Share Posted March 23, 2012 My biggest fear is this mild Nw flow continues for weeks and this turns into the worst fire season in Sne history Is it just me or do you make every event or series of events seem like they could be the worst in history? Snow storms, heatwaves, dry spells, hurricanes, severe storms etc. It'll be a bad stretch for fire wx but it'll be tamed with precip late week, cloudy/drizzly wx with the upcoming blocky pattern, and leaf out thereafter into mid to late april. PS-I just took a poop, will it be the biggest one in history? Could be! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MaineJayhawk Posted March 23, 2012 Share Posted March 23, 2012 Is it just me or do you make every event or series of events seem like they could be the worst in history? Snow storms, heatwaves, dry spells, hurricanes, severe storms etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ctsnowstorm628 Posted March 23, 2012 Share Posted March 23, 2012 Trust me I know...it just gets old hearing it for every event all the time LOL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powderfreak Posted March 23, 2012 Share Posted March 23, 2012 You could smell the smoke from this... it looked like it had drifted quite a ways down towards Montpelier as you could see the smoky haze filling the Winooski Valley past Waterbury... as seen from the Mount Mansfield Ski Patrol building at the top of the FourRunner Quad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TalcottWx Posted March 23, 2012 Share Posted March 23, 2012 We have alot of funny guys in here. Fire is cool. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Damage In Tolland Posted March 23, 2012 Author Share Posted March 23, 2012 Is it just me or do you make every event or series of events seem like they could be the worst in history? Snow storms, heatwaves, dry spells, hurricanes, severe storms etc. It'll be a bad stretch for fire wx but it'll be tamed with precip late week, cloudy/drizzly wx with the upcoming blocky pattern, and leaf out thereafter into mid to late april. PS-I just took a poop, will it be the biggest one in history? Could be! Is it just me or have you become a know it all type of poster over the last 6 months? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ginx snewx Posted March 23, 2012 Share Posted March 23, 2012 Best leaf out is near Will, much less here at home. Lowell to Will looks weeks ahead of everyone else, weird.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ctsnowstorm628 Posted March 24, 2012 Share Posted March 24, 2012 Is it just me or have you become a know it all type of poster over the last 6 months? I'm learning a lot and everything I say is meteorologically accurate and I chime in when its something that I know about or want to learn about. Just because you've been on these threads for years doesn't give you the right have opinions over everyone. Sorry. You express your exaggerated opinions and I express the knowledge that I learn as well as my opinions of which I think are accurate ...to each their own. No hard feelings. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ORH_wxman Posted March 24, 2012 Share Posted March 24, 2012 Best leaf out is near Will, much less here at home. Lowell to Will looks weeks ahead of everyone else, weird.. You prob took 290 to 395 right? I'm NW of that a bit and higher up and there is little here...but I've noticed down around lake quinsig a lot of stuff budding out and when I drive up 495 to Megan's area. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Damage In Tolland Posted March 24, 2012 Author Share Posted March 24, 2012 I pray for us next week with the dry, windy conditions and little to no rain this weekend..oh do I pray for our woodlands. High alert Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moneypitmike Posted March 24, 2012 Share Posted March 24, 2012 Even though they're allowing it today, I'll hold off on burning until tomorrow (since I'm burning in the wooded areas). Guess I'll take down some trees today instead. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HoarfrostHubb Posted March 24, 2012 Share Posted March 24, 2012 MPMs yard looks like the town of Dana, MA before they started filling in the Quabbin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ginx snewx Posted March 24, 2012 Share Posted March 24, 2012 You prob took 290 to 395 right? I'm NW of that a bit and higher up and there is little here...but I've noticed down around lake quinsig a lot of stuff budding out and when I drive up 495 to Megan's area. 495 to 290 to 395 yea 495 looks like mid spring. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weathafella Posted March 24, 2012 Share Posted March 24, 2012 Fire around here is meh. Then again 15 years in southern California gives one an entirely different perspective. Driving on an LA freeway at night seeing flames ring the nearby hills coming in towards the city does change one's ideas. And that scenario happens at least once most years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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