{"id":1730,"date":"2015-06-24T15:40:17","date_gmt":"2015-06-24T22:40:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/?p=1730"},"modified":"2015-06-24T15:40:17","modified_gmt":"2015-06-24T22:40:17","slug":"it-is-going-to-be-a-bad-fire-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/?p=1730","title":{"rendered":"It IS Going to Be a Bad Fire Season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I see Cliff Mass is now <a href=\"http:\/\/cliffmass.blogspot.com\/2015\/06\/the-wildfire-risk-is-rising-how-bad.html\">backpedaling<\/a> from his <a href=\"http:\/\/cliffmass.blogspot.com\/2015\/06\/coastal-dry-inland-wet-northwests.html\">earlier pooh-poohing<\/a> about the abnormal warmth and low snow levels ever since last autumn implying ominous things about the coming fire season.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;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&#8217;s indeed normally the case, but this is far from a normal year, and there <em>have<\/em> sometimes been truly epic forest fires on the west side.<\/p>\n<p>And the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seattletimes.com\/seattle-news\/fire-in-olympics-now-at-400-acres-moving-through-tree-tops\/\">first one of the season<\/a> is already under way, in June, <em>far<\/em> earlier than such things normally prove an issue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8217;s just as well. His earlier dismissal was based on the assumption that fires would only really be a problem east of the Cascades. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1730\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}