It IS Going to Be a Bad Fire Season
Published at 15:40 on 24 June 2015
I see Cliff Mass is now backpedaling from his earlier pooh-poohing about the abnormal warmth and low snow levels ever since last autumn implying ominous things about the coming fire season.
It’s just as well. His earlier dismissal was based on the assumption that fires would only really be a problem east of the Cascades. That’s indeed normally the case, but this is far from a normal year, and there have sometimes been truly epic forest fires on the west side.
And the first one of the season is already under way, in June, far earlier than such things normally prove an issue.