Well, it's that time of year again... (Fires were started by the thunderstorms a few days ago.)
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Managing ventilation for the combination of COVID-19 + fire smoke + heatwave is going to be interesting...
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Downtown Palo Alto graph:
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Where are the fires? South of San Jose?
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Both north and south of us. Smoke probably from the north. Maybe as shown in nitter.vloup.ch/davidbaron/statu… although probably some aren't showing up there yet.
L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social @davidbaron
19 Aug 2020
Replying to @davidbaron @khuey_ @amccreight
rapidrefresh.noaa.gov/hrrr/H… is what I'm looking at. Lots of bright colors...
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Ah, I got misled by most of the Bay being clear!
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Replying to @gsnedders
That said, the 02:00 UTC HRRR Smoke doesn't believe that it should be smoky here right now... so it's possible its initialization data doesn't know about the fire that's causing the smoke here. rapidrefresh.noaa.gov/hrrr/H… (This one is near-surface smoke, not vertically integrated)

Aug 19, 2020 · 4:37 AM UTC