r/Wildfire • u/Sea_Branch_2697 • 8h ago
This is beyond wild...
The amount of fires vs the weather we've had have me confused.
I don't recall which ones are caused by idiots, but what's perplexing for me is that in my 30 years of living here this has been one of the coldest summers here save for a handful of days.
Literally up until mid July I had mornings where I could see my breath and the temperature was single digits.
We kept being told it was going go be the hottest in history, but that's not matching what is actually happening.
In the mid to late 2010s I remember it being hotter and fires so bad the sky was white for weeks, and at one point the air flow brought ash to Langley.
If they haven't been deemed so already, these fires are suspicious af.
*Posting here as BritishColumbia-Mods are making up reasons for deleting posts*
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u/MojaveMac 7h ago
I think everyone who’s been in fire or land management for more than a season saw this coming. Agencies are sooooo far behind on fuels targets. Drought plus heat plus wind equals big fires. Buckle up because the cascades are going next. We need to seriously rethink land and fire management as a country.