Brian Emfinger
EF4
I saw some nice video of the wildfires as seen from the International Space Station on NASA TV and put it on youtube.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f8uvA8U1Jmo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f8uvA8U1Jmo
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Santa Anas and the wildfire situation
- Thread starter Brian Stertz
- Start date
Mikey Gribble
EF5
I saw today that the Senate Majority Leader blamed the fires on global warming. I can't say I'm surprised. Literally every weather event that makes headlines gets blamed on global warming anymore. Here's the quote...
“One reason why we have the fires in California is global warming,†Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.)
“One reason why we have the fires in California is global warming,†Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.)
Jeff Snyder
EF5
While we act not to censor content, I can only hope that we learn from the past few threads and try to keep global warming discussion to a minimum. I can guarantee that every major weather-related event will see someone come out to say that it's the result of global warming (though that's no argument that global warming is entirely unrelated to said event). Since such comments, through the past months, have tended to quickly derail threads and lead to little other than bickering, I plead that we avoid bring global warming into this discussion.
Khristian Snyder
EF3
Some fires have started to blaze to my south. The sky is glowing red and smoke is streaming offshore. Its heading toward a large nuclear power plant....so if it takes out power lines many will be in the dark!
This is the fire in Camp Pendleton...south of Orange County.
This is the fire in Camp Pendleton...south of Orange County.
Chad Cowan
EF5
There is a great video of a fire whirl on the CNN.com homepage right now, embedded where there is ususally the picture for the top story. It almost looks like the fire is shooting off bottle rockets!
Here is the larger version:
http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/us/2007/10/24/vo.ca.firenado.kcal
Here is the larger version:
http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/us/2007/10/24/vo.ca.firenado.kcal
Benjamin Smith
EF1
A Fire-Nado??
http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/weather/2007/10/24/lklv.firenado.cnn
I was browsing and came across this. It starts shooting out flames erratically towards the end of the video.
This the first I've ever seen, is this a common occurrence during large fires like this?
http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/weather/2007/10/24/lklv.firenado.cnn
I was browsing and came across this. It starts shooting out flames erratically towards the end of the video.
This the first I've ever seen, is this a common occurrence during large fires like this?
David Drummond
Member
Wow, about mid way through that, that rear flank shot up a huge tower, which anviled out and backsheared!!
Dave Chapman
EF1
The "Cedar Fire" youtube video is from October 2003:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cedar_Fire
It was one of over a dozen major fires in Southern California, very similar to this event.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cedar_Fire
It was one of over a dozen major fires in Southern California, very similar to this event.
KenMcWatters
EF1
Here's another story on this phenomenon from ABC News, originally aired on a special 20/20 segment on 10/23/07. It mentions a remarkable case of a fire tornado in Japan decades ago that killed thousands.
http://abcnews.go.com/Video/playerIndex?id=3768279
See more about fire tornadoes/fire whirls here - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fire_whirl