Fires in Canada?

[blackxacto]

Just a miscellaneous query. I use an app, QuakeFeed. How can there be fires in Canada at this time of year? Isnt it covered in snow most days in late December? I know there were fires this summer, but now?

 

[jedimasterkyle]

Just a miscellaneous query. I use an app, QuakeFeed. How can there be fires in Canada at this time of year? Isnt it covered in snow most days in late December? I know there were fires this summer, but now?

Might I recommend using a different app? I use Watch Duty for my area and it's been more accurate than anything else I've found so far. While it doesn't specifically track Canada wildfires, earlier this summer, it did show them on the map and where the hot spots and air quality issues were. What I like about this app though is that it interfaces directly with NIFC and it uses actual human beings to spot and report wildfires and report on their size.

As for your question about fires in general...I suppose it's possible any time of year, given enough dry fuel and how it started.

 

[Juicy Box]

Low humidity and high winds would spread a fire, although I don’t know what is causing them to start.

 

[m..]

I don't know about these fires in particular. But fires can overwinter under the snow in soil or peat gradually smouldering until the weather warms up in the spring, then reignite and spread on the surface.

 

[blackxacto]

I don't know about these fires in particular. But fires can overwinter under the snow in soil or peat gradually smouldering until the weather warms up in the spring, then reignite and spread on the surface.

Under the snow? I know coal tunnel veins smoulder but had no idea fires burned under snow?

 

[MBAir2010]

there is unrest in the forest
there is trouble with the trees
for the maples want more firelight
and the oaks sent them more breeze.......

 

[blackxacto]

How poetic

 

[MBAir2010]

How poetic

One cant blame the oaks,
because they’re happy the way they are made
and wonder why the maples cant be happy all a blaze

 

[blackxacto]

MB, I want you to change chairs w Herman. You are the class poet today. And remember no more poems regarding Dave who lives in a cave.

 

[MBAir2010]

MB, I want you to change chairs w Herman. You are the class poet today. And remember no more poems regarding Dave who lives in a cave.

can't
see
Neil wrote the original words, I just tweeked them to fit the thread.

 

[decafjava]

can't
see
Neil wrote the original words, I just tweeked them to fit the thread.

Meaning the late great Neil Peart, who was drummer for the Canadian rock trio Rush, and also wrote most of the lyrics including those for this song:

 

[MBAir2010]

Meaning the late great Neil Peart, who was drummer for the Canadian rock trio Rush, and also wrote most of the lyrics including those for this song:

perhaps, I cant say
since knowing he would not like the attention, reckoning or limelight.

did you see that document filmed recently (2022ish) with geddy and Alex return to their first concert hall?
that was funny, I think in st ctaherines!
Alex was in his normal form just spitting out sarcastic events and cleaver retorts about his childhood!

 

[blackxacto]

Class put your books on the floor and get out one sheet of paper.

 

[MBAir2010]

Class put your books on the floor and get out one sheet of paper.

what is a sheet of papers?
Can i use the iPad and Pencil insteads?
oh my Watch states class demised!