A 'Record-Breaking and Dangerous' Heat Wave Is About to Hit the West Coast

Thanks for the Daily Doom Digest. I was getting entirely too perky lately.

The upside is that maybe I can walk to work without a sweater and a hat one day soon. It's 57F here now.

Gotta go, time for my long hot shower.

Newsom Misled the Public About Wildfire Prevention Efforts Ahead of Worst Fire Season on Record

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No. There is an equilibrium point, which is where we were before a bunch of european types showed up with machines and put out fires.

We'll creep back to another equilibrium. "Every bit of it will burn or die quite soon" makes no sense at all. Good thing to be depressed to imagine, if that's what you need.

Catastrophe extrapolation is popular but makes no sense. Like The Population Bomb stupidity.

Chicken Little perhaps?

Perhaps you should inform the NWS/NOAA that their 7 day forecast is horribly wrong:

If you want a reasonable weather guess, I suggest Pivotal Weather:

NWS warning is based on convergence of European and GFS weather models, which are NEVER wrong this close to the event.

Silly denialist: the equilibrium of long ago is for an entirely different temperature of the planet, and it's NOT long enough for trees and shrubs to have mutated to adapt. Heck, human practices haven't mutated enough in the last few decades, when we KNEW the warmup was coming.

Forests of old might never be able to return, and entirely new ecologies will come into existence; let's hope they're better than the Sahara that overtook parts of Africa due to human activity. Or, lets PLAN AND IMPLEMENT something better.

Problem is they replant the damaged areas with the wrong trees at too high density. They need to thin the existing forest, cutting down every 4 of 5 trees. Main problem there is the terrain. There exists some pretty humongous grinder technology they can put on a tracked vehicle, probably requiring 100HP per ton weight footprint, and that will be a lot of tons, grind the largest tree like it's a twig, and then use a massive blower to blow the debris and dust through tubes up to a mile to the collection point on the nearest road to truck that stuff somewhere away from the forest. The whole US will get free mulch for a year.

Perhaps you need to learn how to read English. "additional record breaking hot weather is forecast over the Pacific Northwest into the Sacramento Valley beginning this weekend". Is it common for Sacramento to have 103/104 degree heat?

Two wrongs make a right? I'll buy that if they tend to predict diametrically opposing predictions and where reality is somewhere in between. You're usually correct about improved accuracy closer to the predicted day. However, NWS failed badly last Thurs (June 17) when it predictive over 100F temperatures, and nothing happeneed.

Maybe a comparison of computah weather models would be useful:

This GFS model is nice because you can go backwards 3 days:

Looks like the YouTube influencers also predict very hot weather, but more to the north this time: "Record Breaking Heat Wave Forecast to Bring Triple Digit Temps to Washington, Oregon, and California"

If we were dead as many times as we have been predicted to be dead, we'd all be dead.

Why buy all that expensive machinery? Just let it burn.

Forest fires tend to burn people's homes, and people. They aren't much fun, and the consequences are pretty nasty too.

City dwellers tend to be relaxed about this, until the outer suburbs star burning, and the inner city hospitals start filling up with people who react badly to inhaling wood smoke.

I didn't much like having my view over Sydney Harbour obscured by wood smoke. Happily it didn't re-activate my childhood asthma. Others weren't so lucky.

Our planet supports seven or so billion opinions; why do you tally up all the fantasies of doom? Predictions of death prove right for us all, in time.

Now that the forecasts are proving true people don't have so much to say. This really is an extreme weather event.