tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8526498499129692237.post7642641912150434584..comments2024-03-22T05:17:53.112-04:00Comments on Big Bad Bald Bastard: Local Effects of Far-Off HorrorsBig Bad Bald Bastardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01983025559556548658noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8526498499129692237.post-88312005426654986122021-07-22T22:14:18.069-04:002021-07-22T22:14:18.069-04:00Apparently the current position of the jet stream ...Apparently the current position of the jet stream zipped some California tropopause air which was full of forest fire smoke right to NYC. I southern Brooklyn I could see it in the air by looking down a street at trees a block or more away. It reminded me of Los Angeles in the early 60's, except my eyes weren't burning and watering. <br /><br />Anyone bitching about regulations and federal government overreach (you know, Trumpsters) was never in Los Angeles back then or swimming in Lake Erie either. <br /><br />What is mostly lost in reports of fires in the West is that since a lot of it gets almost zero rain for half the year or more it is normal for fires to sweep through any forest now and then. So the trees are adapted. In an ordinary level fire the smaller brush and saplings would be taken out, leaving more mature trees and creating soil conditions which other adapted plants would grow in. <br /><br />Then we suppressed the fires making the forests more flammable. But prescribed burns to reverse this have been going on for about three decades. And people built houses in the middle of it. <br /><br />In the rest of the country where rain is not so seasonal this problem does not exist. Feel free to build your house in the middle of some Eastern forest. emjayayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06790208989570059525noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8526498499129692237.post-71077185400927593152021-07-22T01:00:41.822-04:002021-07-22T01:00:41.822-04:00Horrifying :(Horrifying :(Anathema Devicenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8526498499129692237.post-28910552653736143032021-07-21T23:22:56.503-04:002021-07-21T23:22:56.503-04:00I sure hope it isn't as bad as last year, but ...I sure hope it isn't as bad as last year, but I'm not holding my breath.Big Bad Bald Bastardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01983025559556548658noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8526498499129692237.post-88600115117330051192021-07-21T10:35:11.832-04:002021-07-21T10:35:11.832-04:00and summer has just begun!
and summer has just begun!<br />tony in san diegohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17610599999844228511noreply@blogger.com