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Posted by Jan Wondra | Jul 12, 2021 The sun rose this Monday morning as it has for the past few days in an unnatural hue, an orange-red muddied at the edges by a haze that stretched from the peaks on all sides of the Arkansas River Valley, a smoky blanket that originated hundreds and thousands of miles away. The normally pristine peaks and clear blue sky were masked by the other-worldly colors of a planet that is changing. Hundreds of wildfires are burning across the west, including in the normally cool and rainy Pacific Northwest. Image courtesy of Unsplash. The culprit of this morning’s phenomena: wildfires here in the West have begun months earlier than the normal fall fire season; smaller fires in Routt County near Steamboat Springs, and massive fires further west and north: more than three-quarters of a million acres burning in northern California, Oregon, and Washington state, and more than 300 fires in normally cool and misty British Columbia. That high-level ....
Bird Song of the Day 26 minutes (!) of a Snow Oil foraging and feeding its young. Impressive dedication. #COVID19 At reader request, I’ve added these daily charts from 91-DIVOC. The data is the Johns Hopkins CSSE data. Here is the site. I feel I’m engaging in a macabre form of tape-watching…. (A reader asked the source of the data: Johns Hopkins CSSE. DIVOC-91 does allow other data sets to be used, like Our World in Data and The Atlantic, and where they provide visualizations similar to those below, a cursory comparison shows that the shape of the curves is the same.) ....