Well over the weekend most of California had a nice little thunder and lighting storm. Which being Summertime in California set off a whole bunch of wildfires. At one point there was something like 600 lighting started fires. Most of which were just small brush fires and were quickly contained. As of 0800 this morning however there are 34 major fire areas some of which are made up of as many as a 100 or more smaller fires. These are just the ones that CALFire is handling there are more that local fire control are taking care of. Add on top of that the possiblality that more fires are out there just smoldering in a lighting struck tree wait for the wind to pick up to burst into another wildfire.

So with 15 or so fire areas within 75 miles of where I live you get the picture above. Those are not clouds all that haze is smoke. For all of the day you couldn’t see the Sun it was only a brighter spot in the overall haze. The winds are pretty still right now so it looks like it is going to be more of the same for the next 4-5 days or so. Which isn’t too bad ’cause the last thing the firefighter want now is wind, which would just make the job of fighting the fires that much worse.

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