Tuscarora, Nevada
Photographer states: With the winds from the front blowing in, the fires have gone from 100,000 acres to 200,000 acres.
...Federal officials (click title to entry - thank you) say more than a dozen wildfires are burning in northern Nevada, ranging in size from 500 to 38,000 acres.
The Reno Gazette-Journal reports that the Bureau of Land Management states on its website that 13 fires are blazing in from the Carson City area to the Utah state line.
The largest is known as the Hot Springs fires and is scorching a 38,000 acre section of Humboldt County. KVTN-TV reports the BLM expects to have the blaze - which destroyed an outbuilding, but poses no current threat to property - contained in a matter of days....
Below is the large incident fire map from October 7, 2011. The area in Nevada where the fires occurred can be noted in this map. They still are not contained.
Below is the US from October 4, 2011. Easily discerned is the deepening of the drought in the USA. The Texas drought is no longer contained in Texas and Georgia is showing a worsening of the drought there. But, note the yellow area in Nevada just south of the wildfire locations. That is a drought contributing to the ever enlarged parched area of lands in the USA.
Below is the current satellite of the USA weather patterns.
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UNISYS Enhanced Infrared Satellite of the USA (click here for 12 hour loop)
Below is the current severe weather map for the continental USA. What happens to a pipeline when there is severe flooding as has been the case CONSISTENTLY over the past five years? Do we actually need to worry about a pipeline when it is time to open a levy? I don't think so.
Below is the UNISYS Water Vapor Satellite of the North and West Hemisphere of Earth. It is noted to have severe turbulence along the Equatorial Region and three mid-latitude vortexes over or entering the USA with a fourth noted off the east coast currently over Iceland.
October 8, 2011
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UNISYS Water Vapor Satellite of the North and West Hemisphere of Earth. (click here for 12 hour loop)
I always found this satellite image to be one of the most incredible images of Earth. It is an enormous area of the planet and visualized so very, very clearly. Nearly an entire quarter of the Earth's surface in one satellite image. Thank you, UNISYS.
Four vortexes. Not normal. The vortexes in the Northern Hemisphere have sustained since October 4, 2002. Nine years of turbulent upper tropospheric winds. They began a year after the USA entered Afghanistan.
