Fire season has started.

coloradoman · Jun 5, 2020

On the Bookcliffs north of Grand Junction. Hardly any smoke an hour and a half ago. Lightning started.

Bluehair · Jun 5, 2020

Hell of a t-storm down here.

DW · Jun 5, 2020

Got one goin in the poudre canyon as well, by mishawaka.

tailchasers · Jun 5, 2020

Friday night and Saturdays rain should help.

tailchasers · Jun 5, 2020

Holy smokes!! Winds and smoke has hit Rangely. Cough cough!! Crazy wind and heavy smoke.

Buffs35 · Jun 6, 2020

Crazy. Hope the weather cooperates.

Bluehair · Jun 6, 2020

Hopefully some of this moisture will push up your way. Been thundering and raining all night off and on - very unusual for this time of year down here. Monday the high is supposed to be 65 and the low 35.

Thats down here in the desert. I might get snow at the cabin.

BeanMan · Jun 6, 2020

Bluehair said:
Hopefully some of this moisture will push up your way. Been thundering and raining all night off and on - very unusual for this time of year down here. Monday the high is supposed to be 65 and the low 35. Thats down here in the desert. I might get snow at the cabin.

Yep, it’s unusual to see a cloud this time of year, we had light rain in Palisade and I’m hoping for more. Idiot neighbor was burning trash next to dead cheatgrass and burned his fence and 5 acres two nights ago. It was lucky that it was calm.

Bluehair · Jun 6, 2020

Not that I would ever admit to having a trash fire get away from me

, but who hasn't had that happen? But isn't there a fire ban Up there? No fires down here. I'm not sure its because of the dry or the covid smoke? Seems I heard that somewhere.....

The last neighborhood fire we had was when the crazy neighbors decided to boil Easter eggs over a campfire on a red-flag day.

Burned up about 10 acres of cedars and I got to watch it all from the porch. Fire is one of the things that scares me. We made it too easy.

Blank · Jun 6, 2020

My son and his HotShot crew just left the Blue Creek fire, and relocated to the Sieber fire. Gonna keep them hopping this summer with all the growth.

Hawkeye · Jun 6, 2020

Where exactly are these fires located? I’ll be hunting Unit 31/32 this fall. It is early so I think we can expect quite a few more fires this summer.

Hawkeye

Blank · Jun 6, 2020

These are around Grand Junction. There are a couple dozen fires going right now in Central and Western Colorado.

DW · Jun 6, 2020

The one I mentioned is west of FT Collins, unit 19.

BeanMan · Jun 6, 2020

Hawkeye said:
Where exactly are these fires located? I’ll be hunting Unit 31/32 this fall. It is early so I think we can expect quite a few more fires this summer.

Hawkeye

Probably many, we are in a drought here.

Hawkeye · Jun 6, 2020

BeanMan, I sent you a pm.

Hawkeye

hawkbill · Jun 7, 2020

Blue Hair, I was always wondering what kind of a-hole let’s a fire get away from himself. This spring I was cleaning up around the ditch banks and decided to do a little burning, within about 2 minutes that fire jumped the bank and I had a heck of a mess, with an out of control fire. I was yelling at the girls to bring hoses, my heart was racing about 200 beats a minute. I did finally get it out.l agree with you, fires scare me

Bluehair · Jun 7, 2020

hawkbill said:
Blue Hair, I was always wondering what kind of a-hole let’s a fire get away from himself. This spring I was cleaning up around the ditch banks and decided to do a little burning, within about 2 minutes that fire jumped the bank and I had a heck of a mess, with an out of control fire. I was yelling at the girls to bring hoses, my heart was racing about 200 beats a minute. I did finally get it out.l agree with you, fires scare me

Here's one from a few years back. These are from my deck, a little more than a mile away. You could HEAR it. These three pictures represent about 3-4 hours.

The bombers came right over the house at a few hundred feet.

I think I drank a 30 pack that day dragging hoses. LOL

DW · Jun 7, 2020

Lightning Sparks Multiple Fires In Mesa County

Three fires sparked by lightning are still burning in Mesa County.

denver.cbslocal.com

sjhgraysage · Jun 7, 2020

My son is an airplane mechanic for Aeroflite. He went to Fairbanks Alaska yesterday. His assigned aircraft are on the Isom Creek fire which is next to the haul road going to Prudhoe.
I bet he will be busy all summer, somewhere in the west!