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2 hours ago, mattie g said:

Spontaneous combustion? As in piles of hay catching fire as a result of biological impetus and eventual chemical reactions? Seems more likely that they would start from lightning strikes.

 This occurs, (for example), in highway maintenance when roadside brush cutting crews pile their chips at the shoulder areas. I have witnessed this along multi-mile stretches in MD or VA, with multiple smoldering brush fires from different chips piles.  They're not hard to control, but do get response from local FD. Also cause rubber-necking backups. (No surprise there).

It's not normal; conditions have to be just right. But, it's a good reason to try not to do brush cutting in hot summer wx.

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22 minutes ago, peribonca said:

All in all this summer hasn't been too hot... Is the smoke from out west limiting our daytime heating?

No, it is mostly that the ridge has set up pretty far west.  We get bigger heat when the ridge sets up either over us or in the central US and the heat “rolls over” to us.  This year we are above normal on 90 degree days but below normal on 95+.  A fairly average summer under the new 91-20 climate norms.

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25 minutes ago, peribonca said:

All in all this summer hasn't been too hot... Is the smoke from out west limiting our daytime heating?

We haven’t had much for extreme heat on a given day, but we are (of course) above normal temps this summer and above normal 90F days.

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3 hours ago, mattie g said:

Spontaneous combustion? As in piles of hay catching fire as a result of biological impetus and eventual chemical reactions? Seems more likely that they would start from lightning strikes.

That actually happens a lot in these parts. In Taneytown the other month 4 acres of cut grass caught on fire because of spontaneous combustion while it lay drying in the field.

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3 hours ago, mattie g said:

Spontaneous combustion? As in piles of hay catching fire as a result of biological impetus and eventual chemical reactions? Seems more likely that they would start from lightning strikes.

I'm from Western Canada, where at some point the prairies turn into lots of trees if you go far enough north,  It is true that in the part prairie/part forested provinces fires get caused by things such as hay and peat igniting on their own, things igniting because of lightning, or things igniting because of human stupidity.

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1 hour ago, Eskimo Joe said:

That actually happens a lot in these parts. In Taneytown the other month 4 acres of cut grass caught on fire because of spontaneous combustion while it lay drying in the field.

Spontaneous combustion is a big issue in the midwest farm belt too.  It's why one never puts green/wet hay or alfalfa in the barn.  It's a good way to burn your barn down.  My dad actually helped fight a barn fire in Switzerland of all places in 1981.  They put wet alfalfa in the barn and it lit up on its own.  (Dad was a volunteer for 60+ years and in the first class of paramedics in Ohio).  

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On 7/17/2021 at 1:10 PM, CentredMan said:

When were you in Delhi? We were there from 86-92, father worked for CARE, spent loads of time at ACSA and US embassy movie theater.

Lived there 92-95.   Lived in Vasant Vihar just outside of outer Ring Road.  Amazing experienced.  Lots of memories of ACSA and the movie theater too.  Played a lot of softball there - both slow and fast-pitch.  Had a nice 18 hole frisbee golf course setup too.  9 holes on the housing compound at the Embassy and 9 holes at the American School out the back gate.  The player with the highest score on a hole had to carry the beer cooler to the next hole.  The more you carried the more you drank to lighten the load the worse you threw.  haha.  

 

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9 hours ago, RDM said:

Lived there 92-95.   Lived in Vasant Vihar just outside of outer Ring Road.  Amazing experienced.  Lots of memories of ACSA and the movie theater too.  Played a lot of softball there - both slow and fast-pitch.  Had a nice 18 hole frisbee golf course setup too.  9 holes on the housing compound at the Embassy and 9 holes at the American School out the back gate.  The player with the highest score on a hole had to carry the beer cooler to the next hole.  The more you carried the more you drank to lighten the load the worse you threw.  haha.  

 

Nice, just missed you but I bet we can play the name game for sure. We lived in West End colony. I played fastpitch and slow pitch softball too, along with little league baseball. Talk about the softball experience with my daughter‘s softball teams. Never heard about the Frisbee golf course tho. Once a Falcon, Always a Falcon!

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