Town of #Edson #Alberta order to evacuate. Never rely on any map to ignore an order to evacuate.

Interactive map shows MODIS/VIIRS satellite heat detections. These locations are only approximate and not real time. For more info click 2 links upper left corner. #ABwildfire #ABfire #Wildfires #CanadaFires #Geospatial

Open #GISsurfer map:
https://mappingsupport.com/p2/gissurfer.php?center=53.494185,-116.397400&zoom=10&basemap=Canada_Toporama&overlay=MODIS_7_day,VIIRS_7_day&txtfile=https://mappingsupport.com/p2/special_maps/disaster/Canada_wildland_fire.txt

looks like the smoke is going to start moving back in for #Drumheller this afternoon and into tomorrow #abwildfire #abfire https://firesmoke.ca/forecasts/current/

Some combustion byproducts from wildfires enter aquatic ecosystems and behave like organophosphate pesticides like malathion. I wrote about it here: https://open.substack.com/pub/inksmudge/p/more-than-just-smoke?r=1r23uw&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

#wildfire #ABfire #ClimateChange #invertebrates #pollution

'Putting eyes on a fire is the most valuable intelligence you can get' https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2023/05/21/boots-on-the-ground-eyes-in-the-sky-satellites-increasingly-used-to-fight-wildfires.html #ABfires #ABfire #ABwildfires #technology

As I drove out of Calgary today the smoke was so thick but just west of the city it’s been so, so much better.

I spent a lot of time this afternoon just breathing the air and looking at the blue sky and appreciating it all.

Amazing how much you take clean air for granted until it’s gone.

#yyc #Calgary #Alberta #ABfire #abfires #albertawildfires #wildfires #climatechange

‘Wildfire seasons have been lengthening & fires have been burning with a greater destructive intensity.

I call it “21st-century fire” because that’s when fire really started to get weird. Before 2000, wildfire-generated pyrocumulonimbus thunderstorms were an extreme rarity.

Now they are a common feature; Alberta generated several of them in the first week of May alone’

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-no-wonder-alberta-is-on-fire-we-made-this-planet-into-a-volcano/

#ABfire #wildfires #alberta #ableg #albertawildfires #climatechange

‘This situation was foreseen more than half a century ago & it is now upon us with a vengeance. Wildfire seasons have been lengthening & fires have been burning with a greater destructive intensity. I call it “21st-century fire” because that’s when fire really started to get weird. Before 2000, wildfire-generated pyrocumulonimbus thunderstorms were an extreme rarity. Now they are a common feature; Alberta generated several of them in the first week of May alone’
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-no-wonder-alberta-is-on-fire-we-made-this-planet-into-a-volcano/

#ABfire

Alberta Wildfire spokesperson Christie Tucker said there are currently 91 wildfires in Alberta's forest protection area, and 25 of those are out of control.

She also underlined just how severe this year's wildfire season has been, with 842,000 hectares burned so far.

"Last year, on this day, we [had] burned just 459 hectares. Not 459,000 — 459," Tucker said.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/rainy-forecast-offers-hope-to-subdue-alberta-wildfires-1.6850568

#ABfire #abfires #alberta #albertawildfires #wildfires

Alberta Wildfire spokesperson Christie Tucker said there are currently 91 wildfires in Alberta's forest protection area, and 25 of those are out of control.

She also underlined just how severe this year's wildfire season has been, with 842,000 hectares burned so far.
"Last year, on this day, we [had] burned just 459 hectares. Not 459,000 — 459," Tucker said.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/rainy-forecast-offers-hope-to-subdue-alberta-wildfires-1.6850568

#ABfire #abfires #alberta #albertawildfires #wildfires

9:45pm. Normally the view from this hill is the town on the left and the river on the right. You can see part of the town, but the river is gone, obscured by the heavy smoke.

#abfire

Oh goody ash is actually lightly snowing down in #yegDT now.

#yeg #yegWX #Edmonton #ABFire #ABFires

No filter, just smoke.

The slightly darker line around the center of the picture, the one that almost blends in with the sky, is the other side of the valley and about a 15 minute walk from where I took this picture.
#abfire

Alberta has endured some of the worst air quality in the world this week, as wildfire swirls

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/alberta-air-quality-among-worst-in-the-world-wildfire-smoke-1.6848195

#yyc #calgary #alberta #albertafires #ABfire #abfires #wildfires

These alerts are starting to get a little close for comfort.

#abfire

Burn scar from one of the Alberta Wildfires (Sentinel-2 #satellite on 5/17/2023). Shortwave Infrared (SWIR) image. #ABfire #Alberta #wildfires #Canada

She fled the wildfires with her kids. But her husband stayed behind to fight them

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/thecurrent/husband-wife-fox-creek-wildfires-1.6847821

#alberta #albertafires #abfire #wildfires #wildfire

Just how bad is the air in Calgary right now?

This chart shows the past five days.

Huge spike in particulate matter on Tuesday and, after a brief reprieve overnight, it's surging again today. 😷

#Calgary #yyc #alberta #albertafires #abfire #wildfires

If you think it's been a lot smokier in Calgary in recent summers — you're right

🔗 : https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/calgary-smoke-hours-way-up-smoky-summers-more-common-1.6846615

#yyc #calgary #alberta #albertafires #abfire #climate #climatechange #ableg

Isn’t it great that AQHI goes to 11 on a scale of 1 to 10?
#abfire

#Calgary #smoke this morning taken from the linked webcam.

#abstorm #abfire #weather #alberta

https://youtu.be/MwcqP3ta6RI