Over Hundred Lightning Strikes in Last Day in Shasta Trinity National Forest
[By Shannon1 via Wikicommons]
Over the past 24 hours, 126 lightning strikes occurred within our forest boundary. Only one small fire was located NW of Trinity Lake. Trinity Helibase Firefighters located the fire and isolated it. No growth was expected overnight, and crews will recheck it later today.
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I found http://www.lightningmaps.org a great tool for watching near realtime lighting (anywhere in the world) to be helpful- it does a 10 mi. x 10 mi. grid with # of lightning strikes within an allotted time frame and the range of thunder.
More coming today.
That site sounds wonderful be very educational I bet children would love to look at that site for science
http://www.lightningmaps.org/?lang=en#m=sat;r=0;t=3;s=0;o=0;b=;n=0;
That’s a good site, this is what the pros (ie. Incident command) use:
https://lightningapi.nifc.gov/viewer/
Going to be a long hot summer again everyone pray and cross their fingers we sure can’t do another one like last year we’re losing our beautiful countryside and people’s lives
Has anybody heard anything about fires near the Weaverville area?
I have a view over weaverville from high above.
No plumes that I can see. If something’s out there it’s still small.
Whew! Thanks!
2 very small fires reported by STNF twitter.
# China fire 12 miles nnw of Junction city.
# Creek fire
Both small and likely nothing to worry about. But if you smell smoke and hear copters, that might be why.
Whaaaaaat?
You work in the tower?
Cush Job, best views around.
There’s only a few places to look out over Weaverville…Forest service access roads. The highest outhouse I’ve ever pooped in.
SPI easement rights too.
I’m opposite the bally.
The big view picture below features Browns Mt. In forefront right, behind the trees.
Weaver bally is center on the big mountain. Weaverville is centered below, obscured by ridgelines.
Lewiston to the right, Junction City to the left.
The very tall ridgelines on the back left are the Alps.
If they chose to put me in a tower, I’d work it. But no, now it’s just volunteer time to lookout after storms.
🕯🌳This is some weird weather.
No, it’s not. The lightning storm on the solstice eve in 2008 was an oddity. These system have been refreshingly “normal”.
Agreed.
June, July and August have always been the lightning months.
My friend Lincoln was the lookout on Ironside Mountain for many years, on June 21st 2008 he stapled over 25 pages onto that day’s page in the logbook, i think he personally logged 1600 ground strikes. He got a call from another lookout (Horse Mountain?) indicating he had an anvil cloud forming right over him and to disconnect all electronics. He did for the most part, but he forgot to disconnect his laptop and charge adapter from the solar battries and the lookout building took a direct hit, haha it made some really cool weld patterns on the motherboard. The hard drive and data survived, so there’s that. He was stuck on his insulated bed and raised insulated stools around the map table for most of the day, luckily he had a canteen of water and something to pee in, as well as a handheld radio. A few days later they evacuated him and wrapped the lookout building and one of the fires came up and over the mountain shortly thereafter. The lookout and radio gear all survived, but he didn’t man it again until late August. We went up to visit on the full moon and spend the night sleeping outside on the lookout deck, and there were still glowing snags visible at night off in the distance towards the southfork. SOS, summer of smoke. 6 solid weeks of smokey inversions.
A few years ago, an intense lightning storm shut down 3 neighbors generators simultaneously.
Has anyone seen something like this? I think it created a natural EMP situation.
Entirely possible. The local surge in electricity could have made the generators throw their surge protectors.
Ahhhhhh. That makes sense!
Thanks!
If there is any length of wire connected the lighting charge can couple to it as it dissipates on the surface soil (actually the electron flow from the ground / sky charge differential flows from the ground back up the ionization path to the cloud in 50ms impulses). Did it permanently damage any of the generators? Underground wiring can be susceptible to this, like between a satellite dish and house or solar panel array and power system.
Yes, I put multiple lightning arrestors on all the solar and hydro I install.
No permanent damage, no visible damage.
They just needed 30 minutes or so to restart.
Ran like before.
I think the triggered surge idea was it.
I visited Lincoln a few times up at lookout. Another oddity about that system was the Lightening Alert Level was a 1… the lowest on a 1 to 5 scale…
I had to deal with 2 fires from that complex… 90% of our perimeter burned. As the first fire approached the Interagency Command Center told me ” good luck, you’re on your own…”
Right now for this date we have had the fewest fires and acres burned in the last 10 years. Currently 16,719 fires nationwide have burnt 375,239 acres. The ten year average for this date is 26,719 fires and 1,580,553 acres burned. Let’s hope it keeps going that way.
I got a kick out of the lightning map page. It says intended for entertainment purposes only. Do people actually watch a lightning map for entertainment.
It was a great winter. The last 7 years I was calling in and watching for fires in March and April.
March and April of this year I still had a foot or more of snow.
Only started being concerned for this year a week or two ago.
Busted!!. Lol.
You on the bolly?
You seen people who do this?
https://youtu.be/Xi8Yies3D98
They have even a better vantage point than You!
Sid,
Wow that was awesome. I haven’t seen people busting out hangliders over there.
Thanks for sharing.
That’s what I’m talking about. Get yourself some wings, learn how to fly. Rise above.
Once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth lookin skyward.
https://youtu.be/ETMbjIkxu40
I’m sure you will recognize the terrain, they look to be 3k over the summit.
https://youtu.be/XUD7WGMS6WI
Think this guys home site is broke saw
https://youtu.be/4waD3k-Or90
https://youtu.be/LMbHNxJAIis
Balls to fly the Bally….
ES MI FAMILIA!
https://youtu.be/TEZ-yxT9Dng
Contribution to mankind in this form, is highly respectable.
Standing on the shoulders of people like this, gives you a whole different perspective of the 3D Chess Board.
I do. Turn on the thunder and watch the sound wave roll out from the strike. I usually hear it about 1 second before the map shows it rolling over me.
So thats what the ever growing circle is. I was wondering.
More fun than reality TV….
I’m guessing .
Photo of the build up over Trinity County at 4:00 pm June 15, 2019.
If I’m not mistaken, this photo is looking northeast?
From Picket Peak. So yes, pretty much so.
🕯🌳It must be PG&E testing out new ways to start fires.
Here’s pictures, two from two days ago, on Bell Springs rd and one from yesterday, a top of Lauffer Road, Southern Humboldt, looking East.
1 and 2 are my favorites. Nice ones!
Photo2
Photo3
Brian-
Around 2001 a lightning storm was approaching and I unplugged everything. .. except I forgot the phone lines. I had been rebuilding a computer and the case was open. A strike hit the phone lines and I watched a 3 foot, blue bolt jump out of my modem… frying it.
Generators certainly could fry from a strike.
That’s crazy!
Though my 3 ( different) neighbors generators were not struck by anything physically.
They all shut off just shut down. It took 30-45 minutes for them to restart afterwords.
I cant tell you how crazy it was up here in that storm, but it was not a light one. We see a lot of the craziest up here @ 4000′, but the simultaneous generator shutdown was a once only event.
We all still scratch our heads about it up here.