http://bcwildfire.ca/hprScripts/WildfireNews/Fires.asp?Mode=normal&AllFires=0&FC=4

I was trying to locate the spot on the map. The verbal description on the bcwildfire map matches what is in the article but differs from the latitude and longitude location provided on the MoF site.

Based on those, the fire is south west of Vanderhoof near Greer Creek Road and Stony Creek.

That whole are a has lots of beetle killed wood so will be interesting to see if the fire is in that and how far will go.

I was wondering about the color of the sky last night. Something did not seem right. And I thought I heard a couple of water bombers overhead.

You are right about the beetle killed wood Gus. From the map on the link in your post, the fire is between the Kenney Dam Road and the Kluskus FSR. That area is mostly dead pine.

The info in the link says it was discovered on Friday, so it has already gotten quite big in a short time.

Hopefully we don't get a lot of wind today...

Any update on the fire situation??

It is in south west and very close to the First Nation community and in the Nechako Valley.

I am surprised that forestry does not consider this an interface fire. How close is close?

I was watching the sky last night. I can see flames from my place in Engen. Scary and facinating at the same time!!!

Frank

I wonder if PACHA will do some air samples while the woodsmoke is so thick. Perhaps it will show them what effect peoples woodstoves have on air quality.

Actually the MoE should do some air sampling to see how much, if any, formaldehyde is in the air.

The hourly averages for PM10 are now up to around 80 and the PM2.5 around 63.

Mother nature at her finest.

http://www.bcairquality.ca/readings/index.html

Last night at 12pm it was 97.7 then dipped overnight and now climbing back up with 79.2 at 10am. These are NOT 24 hour averages, but hourly averages.

the 2.5 hourly is climbing steadily this morning

4am - 15.8
5am - 23.9
6am - 28.1
7am - 28.3
8am - 27.5
9am - 36.5
10am - 63.3

I realize that the no one puts warnings out at these levels, but they should be! They wait till the 24 hour averaged come up. The 24 hour average when they send out a warning is at 25. Kind of late then.

I just heard the winds around the Cluculz lake area are picking up... Hopefully they don't affect the fire.

If this smoke drifts into Prince George from as far away as Vanderhoof, then what does this say about the Industrial Area around Isle Pierre being the best place to locate, to keep particulates out of Prince George.

Seems this is a good indication of what would actually happen as opposed to the models put forward by the Consultants.

For sure Palopu. The wind in PG is predominantly from the west, plus the Nechako Basin giving it a perfect path to PG.

The high level wind - the prevailing winds - are from the west in North America.

However, the lower level wind is predominately from the south in PG.

Go to the provincial air quality page and you can see the wind direction and speed as measured at the various air quality monitoring stations. It varies from station to station.

The effect of volcanoes is one thing, of forest fires is another, and of industry with emissions from low stacks and not enough heat energy to cause it to rise as much as the forest fire smoke does is another one all together.

Like comparing apples to oranges.

Look on page 8 of teh 2006 report linked below to see the wind roses for the monitoring locations in PG

http://air.swdbox.com/uploads/files/pdf/2006_AQReport.pdf

The dominant general directions are from the
1. south
2. north
3. west
4, east