Oregon's Turn to Burn

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First Utah, then Colorado; meanwhile the Northwest Territories, Alberta, Ontario, British Columbia burned quietly until the smoke couldn’t be ignored anymore. Old news.

Now Oregon is really having a time of it. Animated satellite imagery shows how dramatic the fires are… propagating. I encourage those interested to click on the links below to see the most recent 4:20 hours. Late afternoon into the night “the winds pick up” so to say. If they follow Utah and Colorado there should be a show for a week or so.

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Band 07 Infrared
[NASA/MSFC Interactive GOES Data Selector](https://
weather.ndc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/get-abi?satellite=GOESWestconusband07&lat=45&lon=-110&zoom=1&width=800&height=600&quality=100&palette=ir4.pal&type=Animation&numframes=50)

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Band 02 Visible
[NASA/MSFC Interactive GOES Data Selector](https://
weather.ndc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/get-abi?satellite=GOESWestconusband02&lat=43.1&lon=-120&zoom=2&width=800&height=600&quality=100&palette=ir1.pal&type=Animation&numframes=50)

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Band 5 (1.61 µm)
[NASA/MSFC Interactive GOES Data Selector](https://
weather.ndc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/get-abi?satellite=GOESWestconusband02&lat=43.1&lon=-120&zoom=2&width=800&height=600&quality=100&palette=ir1.pal&type=Animation&numframes=50)

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Eastern Washington has the Kaiser Canyon fire that started on 7-16 and is at at 110,354 acres burned and 13 percent contained. It is on the Colville Indian reservation.

There are some others throughout central and eastern Washington that hopefully will be stopped before they reach the devastation of Oregon, Utah and Colorado and the Canadian territories. It is heartbreaking.

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Photo from one of the Oregon fires from MSM news feed this morning. Conditions so dry and hot that trees burn from the inside out.
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Hmm…now I wonder if the Big T will threaten to put interstate tariffs on Oregon for their wildfires like he’s threatened with Canada!

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The land clearances continue it would appear…the only question being who will follow in their wake.

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Climatologist Michael Snyder of Pacific Northwest Weather Watch does a good job covering the Pacific Northwest fire and smoke situation . The link below is to his July 26 broadcast where he reviews various satellite imagery.

Dramatic picture of a spectacular pyrocumulus (fire generated) cloud that developed 2 days ago on BC’s Boston Bar fire in the Fraser Canyon. . Photo by Brad604 on X

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Living on Southern Vancouver Island we’ve been smoke free so far , keeping our fingers crossed.

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