Smoke From Half Way Across the World Affecting Local Air Quality
Many of the Emerald Counties’ residents are noticing the brown haze of smoky skies this afternoon conjuring feelings of fire seasons past.
Do not fear, according to local fire officials, there are no active fires in the region contributing to these skies. But, the darkening skies are an indication of the interconnectedness of our globe.
Pratt Mountain AlertWildfire cam at 5:12 p.m.
As per the National Weather Service in Tucson, the West Coast of the United States is experiencing the convergence of smoke and dust from across the Pacific Ocean, as described in detail on their Twitter account.
The first contributor to the darkening skies is wildfires burning in Siberia and Russia, as seen in this map from Fire Info for Management System.
A zoomed-in photo shows a significant smoke plume pouring voluminous smoke into the atmosphere.
That smoke, as seen in a satellite photograph from the National Weather Service, is wrapped up in a storm system moving towards the Pacific Coast and spreads out across the Western States as it nears the continent.
Another source of smoke and dust is ongoing fires and dust storms occurring in Mongolian and China. These incidents are elevating the amount of smoke moving into the region.
A map released by the National Weather Service highlighting aerosols in the atmosphere in blue/green/oranges shows a massive amount slouching towards the West Coast, finally settling in our region today.
Purpleair.gov, a website relied upon to provide real-time updates on air quality throughout the United States, shows the North Coast of California all the way to the Oregon/Washington Border with air quality conditions higher than our inland counterparts.
Purple Air shows many areas along the North Coast are experiencing poorer air quality than normal. Trinity Village and Ukiah are experiencing some of the worst impacts.
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Some people talk like this is the only country suffering from climate change and inflation.
This shit is worldwide!
Poor ole Joe.
Smoke from Siberia means they have climate change issues and inflation issues. Crack me up , I will say one thing it means , if their smoke can reach us, so can their smog exempt factories emissions, car emissions, power plant emissions, now that is funny. Go green Joe , you can save the world! Crack me up, you’d have to be on crack to believe that, but it does generate crazy tax numbers, peace out ,it’s a simple world. Especially if my uneducated ass can make 7 figures , cause I aren’t very brite, but I got this sheet figured.
“The earth does not belong to man, man belongs to the earth. All things are connected like the blood that unites us all. Man did not weave the web of life, he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself.” ~ Chief Seattle
the wheels are coming off
and no one wants to believe it
Probably many more believe it than you realize, and they quietly prepare for what is coming.
Whatever. Jesus said the heavens and the earth shall both pass away, [the astrological heavens], but His words will never pass away. Jesus is God, I will follow Him, and listen to His word.
That’s very cool, as long as you go with the “peace and love” angle and do not assume that Jesus wants to destroy American democracy. That is not cool.
I think the one caption should read “Mongolia” not “Magnolia”.
There are a couple places where Magnolia was substituted for Mongolia. Magnolias are very nice but I do not think they grow in Mongolia.
I’m glad this is happening. We need a reset lol
Hooray for the chemtrails, the climate engineers, the weather makers and the Agenda!
Friggin’ Putin is a mad man!! Now he’s burning up Siberia trying to ruin our first round of deps?!!… He must be stopped!
Siberia / parts of the taiga has been on fire for decades …
I was stationed in Alaska in the early sixties, and the story was the same. Smoke from Siberia in forests that have burned for decades. The Siberian forests cross 4 time zones. There’s always a fire burning somewhere in Siberia.
Um. It’s Mongolia. Not magnolia..lmao!
Oops, autocorrect got us and I didn’t notice. Thanks for catching that.
Purple air. Com
Private company
Under the 6th paragraph there are 2 magnolia’s. One under small picture and one in 7th paragraph. Darn that autocorrect! LOL
You do good service Kym, thanks
Ugh…apparently I did not save my corrections. sigh…
Autocorrect sometimes morphs from trusted editor to stealth aggresser, LOL. Technology out pacing us.
Ugh, sign. No worries Kim. Thank you for your amazing service to the community .
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It’s not global warming, it’s local logging, happening everywhere all at once, with ultra rapid devastating modern equipment, PLUS the cumulative impact of historical logging. We face a BIOMASS DEFICIT- the sponge is gone . the sponge of the old growth forest with a thick forest floor formerly stored a lot of moisture and released it back into the atmosphere to make more rain. Old growth trees are relatively fire retardant. Now it’s only CDF and loggers in the forest that are retarted. WE MANAGED THE FORESTS INTO KINDLING. this includes the world’s largest forest, the temperate rainforest of Siberia. China has a long , recorded , history of man made desertification also. But here in USA there is nary a single word about how LOGGING (and ranching) is the proximate cause of the “wild” fires and drought scorching the entire American West and Canada with the SAHARA EFFECT. here’s a chestnut tree in France from the monumentaltrees website
Egads. What do we do? Besides eat locally farmed and use reclaimed and recycled stuff….overwhelming. I’m about to pick up a fiddle and play like Niro.
Siberia has a lot of things, but a temperate rainforest isn’t one of them. It’s dominated by the boreal forest or taiga which has a cold, continental climate.
Logging isn’t the proximate cause of western wildfires in the US. It’s a complex mix of historical fire suppression, rapidly expanding wildland-urban interface, and climate change.
And no more old growth and no more
all age forests. Logged that to hell and gone. I watched a lot of it go through a scragg saw that I operated. It was a good job at the time but none of us knew what the hell it meant but a paycheck.
Now it’s all “even age” plantations which are more susceptible to extreme fire while offering none of the benefits of a healthy forest.
Mitsubishi Corp is going to be finishing up getting all the wood out of the Amazon soon too! Plus Borneo and New Guinea is going to be all palm plantation soon.
Not to mention the Congo which is being logged for “clean green” biogeneration electricity in Europe!
It’s not that hard to understand the environmental destruction of the forests happening now in front of our eyes.
It is hard to understand why so many people support the destruction of our planet just so a few billionaires can have everything we collectively need as a species to survive.
No second chances.
Or like the younger ones say
“No Planet B”
To be honest, this is a complex topic that would take far too long to explore in a comment box. I will point out that in the US we grow considerably more volume of wood than we harvest each year which means the trees on the landscape are getting larger on average. Last I looked for California we were growing 7 cubic meters of wood for every 1 cubic meter that was harvested.
A large proportion of the wood in the US comes from intensively managed even-aged forests which means even larger areas can be managed less intensively with uneven-aged techniques (e.g. the Menominee forest) or not harvested at all (i.e. wilderness or parks).
Still global warming.
Very cool chestnut pic. The biggest tree-size species (sativa, dentata) are among the lowest ranked of the biggest and oldest trees on earth. My dad loved the oak, chestnut and hickory forests of his Ohio youth. I loved them, too, but the chestnuts were mostly gone. Broke his Slavic heart when the blight came through and killed the chestnuts. Worth a try in your west coast homestead where blight is not present. Need two or more trees for cross-pollenation. I will always spell pollenation this way. I will never surrender.
FWIW, the Menominee reservation can be easily identified on satellite photos due to its thick preserved forest and provides a stark example of how drastically the continental US has been logged.
https://www.americanforests.org/magazine/article/menominee-forest-keepers/
Did you miss the part where they log the Menominee regularly with sustainable harvests?
And yes less than 1 percent of all tree removal planetwide is conducted in the way this forest is utilized.
The difference is commercial tree plantation clear-cut logging vs. healthy forest tree removal.
They still maintain a healthy forest.
It’s a good example but corporations can’t get rich doing it this way.
And they are the notable exception in the entire world.
I think it’s a lot more than 1% of logging is sustainably managed from the perspective of being able to continually grow trees without long-term loss of productivity. In California it’s required by law to be sustainable. Additionally, millions of hectares are certified as sustainably managed in the US by the Forest Stewardship Council and the Sustainable Forestry Initiative.
Vegetables get labeled organic but that doesn’t mean they aren’t still covered in pesticides.
Clear cutting and replanting monocrop trees will never be sustainable. Yes urbanization is a huge problem, but so are clear cuts.
John Smythe is right about the sponge.
Nope.
Ah, well your comment reads as though you are implying the Menominee forest was never logged (hence preserved).
The land to the southeast of the forest in your image was converted to agriculture. The rest of the area, including the continuous forest canopy to the north has been repeatedly logged.
There is roughly the same amount of forest land in the US today as there was in 1920.
The real problem with forests today is fragmentation due to the expanding wildland-urban interface where large tracks are repeatedly subdivide for residential use. Not logging per se.
If you say so, mr. Weyerhaeuser. I apologize for injecting an off-topic FWIW factotum in the middle of your polemic. It will never happen again! Please lecture away. We are all ears.
Climbing a ladder of faulty inferences isn’t as much fun as I thought it would be.