BAER Team Burn Intensity Maps

August 28, 2008

So just how hot did the fire burn? And where did it burn? Burned Area Emergency Response (BAER) Team maps are beginning to filter out that provide some clues: Read the rest of this entry »

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Will the Fire Make Monterey’s Water Problems Worse?

August 20, 2008

The Carmel River watershed as seen from Pine Ridge 16 months after the Marble Cone Fire Read the rest of this entry »

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South Coast Threatened by New Lightning Storm

August 15, 2008

11:20AM August 15 Update

The Lightning Tracker indicates that the most active parts of the storm are now offshore and weakening.

August 15, 10:45AM

Over 2,500 lightening strikes have been reported in Santa Barbara & San Luis Obispo Counties this morning with only light rain. Multiple fires have been started (including one on the north side of Hwy. 101 at Cuesta Grade). The storm is reported to be moving north …

Here’s hoping it runs out of steam or moves out to sea before it reaches the unburned portions of the south coast.

From the National Weather Service:

AT 915 AM...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THE STRONGEST STORM JUST
SOUTH OF CAMBRIA...AFFECTING HIGHWAYS 1 AND 46. THESE STORMS WILL BE
CAPABLE OF PRODUCING RAINFALL UP TO TWO TENTHS OF AN INCH...AS
WELL AS DANGEROUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING. WHILE THIS IMPULSE OF
STORMS IS EXPECTED TO MOVE OFF THE COAST BY AFTERNOON...THERE IS A
SLIGHT CHANCE OF ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY ACROSS THE
MOUNTAINS LATER THIS AFTERNOON.


 

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Slides, Floods & Debris Flows: Will the Coming Winter be Worse than the Fires?

August 5, 2008

Burned slopes, like the ones in this photo, are ripe for landslides – in fact rivers of gravel and small stones are already flowing down them. Read the rest of this entry »

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