Yosemite Fires and Smoke Alert, 6/29/09

Posted June 29, 2009 - 7:33am by Yosemite Blog
0
Your rating: None

Smoke Alert from fires! Today is a spare the air day in California from the the high pressure that has built over the state. This has caused above normal temperatures and bad air pollution. This combined with smoke from fires in portions of Yosemite has caused some very bad air and will probably get worse from these fires.

The fires were caused by lightning several weeks ago and then we had rain and below normal temperatures in Yosemite that almost put the fires out.With the recent dry weather and high temperatures, in the 90's, the fires have rekindled and are growing.

The largest fire is the Grouse Creek Fire which is between Hwy 41 and the Glacier Point road at the west end of Yosemite Valley. It has really kicked up the last couple of days and is spewing out a lot of smoke. NPS is considering closing the Phono Trail on the south rim and was doing helicopter bucket drops on it yesterday.

Another fire is by White Wolf somewhere on Hwy 120 and has also produced a lot of smoke in that area. I saw another fire in the Ten Lakes area but this is only producing a small amount of smoke.

These fires are "Let Burn" since they were naturally caused and will probably be around for awhile.

Click on thumbnail: 
Smoke from Yosemite Fires looking up Hwy 140, 6/29/09
Click on thumbnail: 
Smoke from Yosemite Fires looking into Yosemite Valley, 6/29/09
Click on thumbnail: 
Smoke from Yosemite Fires looking into Yosemite Valley, 6/29/09

Comments

Post new comment

  • Lines and paragraphs break automatically.

More information about formatting options

  _  __  _   _             _  _     _   
 | |/ / (_) | | __   ___  | || |   | |_ 
 | ' /  | | | |/ /  / __| | || |_  | __|
 | . \  | | |   <  | (__  |__   _| | |_ 
 |_|\_\ |_| |_|\_\  \___|    |_|    \__|
Enter the code depicted in ASCII art style.