Bear Down Wildcats

Started Friday morning in Redington Pass and has now grown to over 14,000 acres. They started evacuating Summerhaven and Mount Lemmon early this morning. Doesn't look so good. Very unfortunate that if between this fire and the fire in 2003 that there's not much left up there on Mount Lemmon to see or visit.

I checked the forecast - no rain for a while. Not good.

wyo-cat wrote:I checked the forecast - no rain for a while. Not good.

It rained an inch in Sierra Vista last night, so the monsoon flow has started. It would be nice to get some up here.

Most forecasts I've looked at haven't shown much of a chance of rain until this weekend/early next week.

The insane stretch of above average, dry heat combined with about 2 months of no rain has completely nuked and dried out all the plants around here. All of the supposed heat resistant type plants in my yard have almost completely died off the last month or two. I rent so it really isn't my problem but it looks terrible. And the landlord won't do anything about the landscaping.

Sure doesn't look promising.

Far as I can tell at the airport there has been 0.02 inches of rain measured since March 29th. So basically 96 days with no real measurable rain.

link to the map showing the area burned so far. damn.

http://nifc.maps.arcgis.com/apps/View/i ... 50ddb23bb8" target="_blank

Is X the point of origin?

dovecanyoncat wrote:Is X the point of origin?

Yes. It's clickable.

Nice little thunderstorm over the Rincon mountains that's just barely missing putting some water on the fire by a couple miles

Bummer. A mixed bag of conditions. Fire behavior might be really squirrely with this set up. Flash fuels to the East with prevailing winds. General upslope to the West where the longer fuels are. Morning blowups likely on East facing upslope due to morning convections. Steep-ass bone baked downhill West faces. At noon the north-south running canyons like Sabino could become absolute death traps.

Just read that parts of the fire are high enough to be in mixed conifer.

Meanwhile, the state of emergency in Yavapai County has ended and evacuations have ceased after the Goodwin Fire had burned more than 27,500 acres:

http://www.prescottenews.com/index.php/ ... e-vigilant" target="_blank

Another map. They're planning on using the highway as a firebreak

A Mountain is on fire after the fireworks show: