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| Morgan Hill Weather News: Wednesday 6/25/2008 1:00pm Who wants more nonstop flight destinations from San Jose International Airport? Now's your chance to have your say! Take their survey and vote today!! Wednesday 6/25/2008 9:00am Here are some useful resources for air quality and smoke impact: California Air Pollution Control Officer's Association - Smoke Impact AIRnow US Government multi-agency air quality site Bay Area Air Quality Management District Plus some statewide fire location maps: California Fires 2008 on Google Maps - created by KSBW Significant California Fires, June 2008 - Governor's Office of Emergency Services Tuesday 6/24/2008 3:00pm Visibility has steadily deteriorated this afternoon because of the smoky haze. From our vantage point we can barely see for 2 miles in any direction across the valley. El Toro is completely invisible to us. Stay inside if you can. Monday 6/23/2008 10:20am Official containment numbers from CAL FIRE at 7:15am this morning... Hummingbird - 850 acres and 90% contained Whitehurst - 200 acres and 50% contained Here are two videos, one of a lightning strike in the Whitehurst area and the other of the Hummingbird fire at full force on Saturday night : Sunday 6/22/2008 5:30pm Hummingbird fire is now 815 acres and 50% contained. Sunday 6/22/2008 12:30pm Added some new time-lapse videos of the Hummingbird and Whitehurst fires. Sunday 6/22/2008 11:35am Here's the latest CAL FIRE update on lightning related fires across Northern California. Here's the latest on the Hummingbird and Whitehurst fires which burned through the night. Also full coverage at the Morgan Hill Times and Gilroy Dispatch . Saturday 6/21/2008 9:55pm Fires are still raging in the hills behind CordeValle. The fire lines are clearly visible below the reflected orange glow from smoke above... Saturday 6/21/2008 5:10pm Here's a recent webcam snapshot of both the Hummingbird Lane fire (center) near CordeValle and the Whitehurst Road fire up and to the right. There's actually a tanker dropping orange retardant behind the center smoke plume but it's hard to see. Saturday 6/21/2008 3:20pm More lightning images captured by local photographer Mark Bristol... Saturday 6/21/2008 3:00pm Lightning continues to strike the mountains opposite us, from Morgan Hill all the way down past Gilroy. Here's a photo of the Uvas fire about 40 minutes ago... Saturday 6/21/2008 1:55pm Unfortunately, looks like that big lightning bolt captured below started another fire. The last thing we needed!!! Update... make that two fires on the western hills! Saturday 6/21/2008 1:45pm Dark thundery skies, temperature of 94°F, lightning and it's RAINING ! You don't see that every day in Morgan Hill and especially not in June. Let's hope we get some more showers to dampen down our tinder-dry landscape. Missed the lightning? No problem... we got it !!! Friday 6/20/2008 4:15pm Trabing Fire command has requested support from the large DC-10 air tanker 910 which is available [update: request cancelled as of 4:28pm] Friday 6/20/2008 3:30pm The latest smoke plume gathering over the mountains behind Watsonville Rd is from the Trabing Fire north of the City of Watsonville, near Hwy 1. Larkin Valley Rd area due west of Watsonville Airport is currently very active. Temp is now 104°F !!! Friday 6/20/2008 8:10am Helicopter makes water drops on Brewster fire hot-spots... Friday 6/20/2008 7:45am CAL FIRE Helicopter now on scene... Friday 6/20/2008 7:00am Fire at West Edmundson and Brewster Lane. Five acres burnt and CDF responding on the ground with a helicopter and dozer en route. A power line was down which could have been the catalyst. See photo below from our webcam... Friday 6/13/2008 6:35pm It's been awhile since the last news update, partly because I was traveling in the Caribbean - see photos below. Wildfires still dominate the news. The Summit fire has been replaced by the Martin fire over near Bonny Doon. Another very eerie smoke plume is coloring this evening's sunset. Are we on Mars ? For those more inclined towards a tropical sunset, here are a couple from Jamaica... |
