[NW America FIRE NEWS] Fire clouds spark 710,117 lighting strikes in western Canada in 15 hours

By artappraiser on Thu, 07/01/2021 - 9:00pm |

Storm-producing fire clouds threw out hundreds of thousands of lightning strikes over wildfire-stricken British Columbia and northwestern Alberta provinces in Canada Wednesday and Thursday, bewildering meteorologists. https://t.co/QnyZ9yPq7G
— SFGATE (@SFGate) July 1, 2021

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Chris Vagasky, a meteorologist with the company Vaisala, said the North American Lightning Detection Network sensed 710,177 lightning events across British Columbia and northwestern Alberta in about 15 hours, between 3 p.m. on June 30 and 6 a.m. on July 1.
— SFGATE (@SFGate) July 1, 2021

Of those, 597,314 were in-cloud pulses, meaning the strikes didn't hit the ground. There were 112,803 cloud-to-ground strikes detected over the same area, he said.

"As a whole, Canada doesn’t generally see a lot of lightning — about 90% less than the United States."
— SFGATE (@SFGate) July 1, 2021

The numbers coming out of the lightning siege seem too big to be true, but Vagasky said the activity is measured with precision equipment.

The majority of the strikes in western Canada were the result of pyrocumulonimbus clouds forming over the wildfires across western Canada.
— SFGATE (@SFGate) July 1, 2021

by artappraiser on Thu, 07/01/2021 - 9:03pm

FWIW, there are other plague possibilities in the province just next door:

7) #COVID19 death increasing in Alberta too — despite Canada being one of the most % vaccinated countries in the world. But #DeltaVariant (35% of Alberta) practically doesn’t care about 1-shot. https://t.co/g7hBznVm56
— Eric Feigl-Ding (@DrEricDing) July 2, 2021

by artappraiser on Fri, 07/02/2021 - 1:36am

Up to 90% of Lytton, BC, burned after authorities order evacuation on Weds. evening:

Lytton Mayor Jan Polderman signed an official evacuation order at 6 pm local time on Wednesday as “the whole town is on fire,” he told CBC News. “It took, like, a whole 15 minutes from the first sign of smoke to, all of a sudden, there being fire everywhere,” he added. According to the town's MP Brad Vis, 90% of Lytton has been destroyed by the fire, affecting 1,200 to 1,500 residents. Earlier this week, Lytton set a record-high temperature in Canada amid a heatwave that started last weekend.

more your choice of coverage at Twitter news

including this video

A terrifying drive for residents forced to flee the village of Lytton, British Columbia as flames engulfed the town on Wednesday evening.

: 2 Rivers Remix Society #BCfire #BCwildfire #LyttonBC pic.twitter.com/nZ7BZFBu00
— The Weather Network (@weathernetwork) July 1, 2021

by artappraiser on Fri, 07/02/2021 - 1:08am

"California's explosive Lava fire keeps growing, forcing thousands to flee their homes" https://t.co/GWicjCCCoP
— Augusta Chambers (@spotavia) July 2, 2021

Lava Fire: Weed Crops Being Threatened by Firenados in California https://t.co/hLyJXVO8AR via @vicenews
— NoBigGovDuh (@NoBigGovDuh) July 2, 2021

California wildfires map from @latimes

The most recent fire is the Salt fire, which started on June 30.

The largest active fire is the Lava fire, which has burned 19,680 acres so far. It started on June 24 and is 19% contained. https://t.co/3wZVqLMkwl
— The Daily Edge (@TheDailyEdge) July 2, 2021

#SaltFire 4,500 acres - 0% containment#DottaFire
480 acres - 5% contained#TennantFire 9,439 acres - 6% contained#LavaFire 19,680 acres - 19% containment
— Michael Barthel (@RealMiBaWi) July 2, 2021

#CaliforniaWildfires #LavaFire #SaltFire #MountShasta

UPDATE: Lava, Tennant Fires Grow Near Mount Shasta; Evacuation Orders Still In Effect https://t.co/sL1iLjxLq4
— k͏o͏r͏b͏e͏l͏r͏e͏n͏o͏k͏i͏a (@KorbelRenoKia) July 2, 2021

by artappraiser on Fri, 07/02/2021 - 1:15am

June 30:

Biden announces a $37 million grant to California’s Sonoma County to help with fire mitigation pic.twitter.com/mt4xsWmsGi
— Bloomberg Quicktake (@Quicktake) June 30, 2021

by artappraiser on Fri, 07/02/2021 - 1:16am

Interesting & surprising: Steve Schmidt on the insanity of the Gavin Newsom recall election with fire season upon California:

I’d like to talk about this recall election and @GavinNewsom. No Governor of California has ever faced the magnitude of multiple crisis that Newsom has faced. From Covid to apocalyptic fires he has led the nations largest state with dignity, empathy and competence. He has been https://t.co/bKFIATFhtx
— Steve Schmidt (@SteveSchmidtSES) July 2, 2021

tested and has met the moment. The candidates running in the recall to replace him are a specific type of Olympian, competitors in a farce of self interest, masturbatory self indulgence, fame seeking and political extremism. Each of them is manifestly unfit to hold any type of
— Steve Schmidt (@SteveSchmidtSES) July 2, 2021

public responsibility and since we watched Trump kill hundreds of thousands of people through neglect, stupidity, selfishness, insanity and incompetence it seems worth mentioning that all of this is being funded and driven by Trump loving political extremists who hate California
— Steve Schmidt (@SteveSchmidtSES) July 2, 2021

Here is the main point in all of this. 48 hours ago a small Canadian town named Lytton was consumed by flames after the temperature hit 120 degrees. Hundreds of thousands of lightning strikes followed the fire storm in a display of weather violence that is both apocalyptic and
— Steve Schmidt (@SteveSchmidtSES) July 2, 2021

novel to the Scientists who measure such things. California will burn through this summer and fall. @GavinNewsom will be tested yet again and we know that he will measure up again. The people seeking to replace him couldn’t collectively operate a Keurig, let alone manage the
— Steve Schmidt (@SteveSchmidtSES) July 2, 2021

chaos and disaster that lie sadly and predictably ahead. At an hour of great crisis it is always best to try and keep the stupid at a low boil. That’s the problem with the recall, it’s stupidity, venality and malice are occurring at a moment of maximum danger in a State with
— Steve Schmidt (@SteveSchmidtSES) July 2, 2021

38 million human souls. California has faced worse than this recall but I doubt it’s ever seen anything as plainly stupid.
— Steve Schmidt (@SteveSchmidtSES) July 2, 2021

by artappraiser on Fri, 07/02/2021 - 4:54pm

Warm weather and social tension are exactly the two things the Pacific Northwest aren't in any way prepared to deal with and both are now hitting that region hard.

by Orion on Mon, 07/05/2021 - 3:16pm

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