[californiadisasters] North Ops News & Notes Update (4/12/12-4PM)

Date	Time	News and Notes
04/12/2012	1600	Regarding questions about the recent intermittent outages of GACC webpages (including the ONCC site): From the National GACC Portal - "Over the past several weeks, access to the domain "http://gacc.nifc.gov/ ", has had intermittent down time. So far it seems to be only affecting access via the USFS Network. Network IT folks are aware of the problem and are working on a solution. Sorry for the inconvenience."
04/12/2012	0630	The weekly Drought Monitor graphic for California produced by the National Drought Mitigation Center indicates that short-term drought conditions in Northern California have improved, but drought conditions have deepened in some areas of Southern California. Statewide, data as of 4/10/2012 shows 4.89% of the state now has no drought conditions (increasing from 3.54% from last week's report), 13.64% is classified as "Abnormally Dry" (decreasing from 14.45%), 32.47% as "Moderate" (decreasing from 35.76%), and 49% is considered to experiencing "Severe" short-term drought conditions (increasing from 46.25% last week).
04/11/2012	1730	As reported in today's Daily SIT Report, GACC units have reported a year-to-date total of 345 fires for 601 acres, and have achieved 161 prescribed fire projects for 12,257 acres. http://gacc.nifc.gov/oncc/predictive/intelligence/situation/sitreport.htm

Source: http://gacc.nifc.gov/oncc/predictive/intelligence/news_notes/index.htm

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