August 2023 Forecasts and Discussions

[Hound]

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[PortKells]

Looking worse than 2003 right now. This could be a catastrophe. The fire jumped the lake already, its bearing down on west kelowna.
I had a trip planned there on Saturday, clearly not happening.

[Typeing3]

21c here. Cooler than last night, which is nice.

Air certainly feels cool and fresh. Might not be fresh for long with more smoke sitting in the interior right now.

[Hound]

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[Typeing3]

Seeing more reports on twitter saying the fire has jumped to the east side of the lake and now also affecting parts of north Kelowna.

[Typeing3]

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Small silver lining out of the current obs is the winds are out of the S/SW which should theoretically keep the fire north out of the city.

[wetcoast91]

Looking worse than 2003 right now. This could be a catastrophe. The fire jumped the lake already, its bearing down on west kelowna.
I had a trip planned there on Saturday, clearly not happening.

It's normal. Forest fires are good. We need more fires!

[SouthSardiswx]

Looking worse than 2003 right now. This could be a catastrophe. The fire jumped the lake already, its bearing down on west kelowna.
I had a trip planned there on Saturday, clearly not happening.

Ya sorry to hear that man, however probably roads leading into the Okanagan valley will probably be closed if they have to use them for evacuation routes. It's weird the 2003 Okanagan 20 year anniversary was just referenced this week insane.

[SouthSardiswx]

It's normal. Forest fires are good. We need more fires!

El Nuts! It's currently 22c @ the pond in south Sardis.
Bit of a refreshing breeze It's lovely out.

[SouthSardiswx]

Tune to Global Okanagan for the latest on the McDougall creek wildfire.

[PortKells]

It's normal. Forest fires are good. We need more fires!

Fires are just part of nature. Especially epic blazes coming out of nowhere, burning down towns and causing 20,000 ppl to evacuate. Any other opinion is alarmism.

[AbbyJr]

Fires are just part of nature. Especially epic blazes coming out of nowhere, burning down towns and causing 20,000 ppl to evacuate. Any other opinion is alarmism.

Wildfires are in fact natural and have always occurred. It's just that as of recent they are happening in more urban areas. It wouldn't surprise me that at least some of them are being deliberately set. However, it would be impossible to prove. Even if they aren't being deliberately set, a lot of them are caused by humans being reckless meaning that they are still avoidable. Lighting caused fires are horrible and unfortunate, but when they are deliberately set by pyromaniacs or reckless behaviour, that's what's infuriating.

[AbbyJr]

There are reports that the West Kelowna fire has jumped the lake. This situation is going from extremely bad to extremely worse.

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https://twitter.com/JamieTawil/status/1 ... 52878?s=20

[Hound]

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There go the homes...

[Hound]

Just got this image from a friend in Westbank from their doorbell cam.

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