Sunday, August 31, 2014

[Geology2] Fwd: 2014-09-01 04:19:14 (M3.0) TENNESSEE 36.4 -89.5 (85f7)



​Too far away tp be felt here. Rats.​



                     == PRELIMINARY EARTHQUAKE REPORT ==



Region:                           TENNESSEE
Geographic coordinates:           36.399N,  89.514W
Magnitude:                        3.0
Depth:                            11 km
Universal Time (UTC):              1 Sep 2014  04:19:14
Time near the Epicenter:          31 Aug 2014  23:19:15
Local standard time in your area: 31 Aug 2014  22:19:14

Location with respect to nearby cities:
4 km (2 mi) WNW of Tiptonville, Tennessee
41 km (25 mi) W of Union City, Tennessee
42 km (26 mi) NNW of Dyersburg, Tennessee
51 km (31 mi) ENE of Kennett, Missouri
246 km (152 mi) W of Nashville, Tennessee


ADDITIONAL EARTHQUAKE PARAMETERS
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event ID                     :  nm 60075996

This is a computer-generated message and has not yet been reviewed by a
seismologist.
For subsequent updates, maps, and technical information, see:
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/nm60075996
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http://earthquake.usgs.gov/

Center for Earthquake Research and Information
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[californiadisasters] Re: Three VLAT's In A Pod



This is quite a picture. At the beginning there was the one that was built out at George in Victorville near us. Now there are three DC-10s!



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[californiadisasters] Three VLAT's In A Pod



What's New at 10 Tanker

Tanker 912 joined 910 and 911 in Merced on August 30th, and will be flying when the next call comes in. 

Source: http://www.10tanker.com/



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[californiadisasters] 1986 Cerritos Air Disaster, 8/31/2014, 12:00 pm



Reminder from:   californiadisasters Yahoo Group
 
Title:   1986 Cerritos Air Disaster
 
Date:   Sunday August 31, 2014
Time:   12:00 pm - 12:00 pm (GMT-08.00) Pacific Time (US & Canada)
Location:   Los Angeles County
Notes:   At about this time in 1986 a small private aircraft (Piper) collided with a DC-9 commuter aircraft (Aeromexico Flight 498) decapitating all three people aboard the smaller aircraft and removing the vertical stabilizer aboard the passenger jet.

Aeromexico 498 plunged into the neighborhood at Holmes Avenue and Reva Circle in Cerritos. All 67 aboard her were killed along with 15 people on the ground. Eight people on the ground were injured with five homes destroyed and seven damaged.
 
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[Geology2] Iceland's Latest Volcanic Eruption Has Airlines Nervous. Here's Why. (INFOGRAPHIC)



Iceland's Latest Volcanic Eruption Has Airlines Nervous. Here's Why. (INFOGRAPHIC)

The Huffington Post  | By Ryan Grenoble
Posted: 08/30/2014

Iceland, home to one of the largest glaciers in Europe and a multitude of volcanoes, made headlines this week following news of a small eruption in the Bárðarbunga (or Bardarbunga) volcanic system.

At 118 miles long and 15 miles wide, Bardarbunga is Iceland's largest volcanic system, so an eruption could have profound implications for air travel in the region, particularly if the volcano emits a large ash cloud.

The land of fire and ice, it seems, is no place for jet engines.

For instance, when Iceland's Eyjafjallajökull volcano erupted in 2010, the resulting ash plume grounded more than 100,000 flights in what the BBC reports was the largest closure of European airspace since World War II.

In an email to The Huffington Post on Friday, an FAA spokesperson said there haven't been any flight diversions as a result of the current eruption. And given the $1.7 billion in revenue carriers lost when the volcano grounded airplanes in 2010, Bloomberg reported, airlines are likely eager to keep it that way.

So why don't volcanoes and air travel mix? In two words: engine failure.

According to the United States Geological Survey, extreme heat -- like that emitted from a jet engine -- melts ash into a glass. That glass stops up fuel nozzles, the combustor and the turbine, which can quickly lead to a stalled engine.

In addition, volcanic ash abrades any forward-facing surfaces on an airplane, including the cockpit windows and leading edges of the wings. "Cockpit windows may become so abraded and scratched," the USGS reported, "that pilots have extreme difficulty seeing the runway on which to land the plane."

See the below infographic for more on how volcanic activity affects airplanes and air travel:

Infographic by Jan Diehm for The Huffington Post.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/08/30/iceland-volcanic-eruption-airplanes-air-travel-infographic_n_5738022.html?&ir=Green&ncid=tweetlnkushpmg00000048
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[Geology2] Iceland Volcano Blasts Back to Life



Iceland Volcano Blasts Back to Life

By Becky Oskin, Senior Writer   |   August 31, 2014
Bardarbunga volcano eruption
Lava fountains during an Iceland eruption on Aug. 31.
Credit: University of Iceland/Ármann Höskuldsson

A new volcanic eruption in southeast Iceland on Sunday (Aug. 31) fountained lava nearly 200 feet (60 meters) into the air.

Lava is spewing from the same crack as a small eruption that occurred Friday (Aug. 29). The fissure slices through the 200-year-old Holuhraun lava field, between Bardarbunga volcano and Askja volcano.

The "calm" eruption is 50 times more powerful than Friday's outburst, according to the Iceland Met Office. Lava was streaming from the fissure at 15.9 million gallons per minute (1,000 cubic meters per second) at 7 a.m. local time (3 a.m. ET) on Sunday, three hours after the flare-up began. The basalt flow covered almost 2 miles (3 kilometers) by mid-morning local time. The crack feeding the lava flow has also expanded to the north and south, and is now almost 1 mile (1.5 km) long. [Gallery: Beautiful Images of Bardarbunga's Volcanic Eruption]

The eruption can be seen on live webcams here and here, though a storm severely lowered visibility Sunday. 

Emergency officials briefly raised the aviation alert warning to red, but no commercial flights have been affected.  

The volcanic activity kicked off Aug. 16, when thousands of small earthquakes underneath the Bardarbunga volcano signaled fresh magma (molten rock) was burrowing underground. After a few days, the tremors showed the magma push off toward the northeast, forming a long channel called a dike. This narrow magma intrusion is now more than 28 miles (45 km) long.

On Aug. 29, the dike punched through to the surface in the Holuhraun lava field, an older lava flow that erupted in 1797. Lava briefly erupted just after midnight local time (8 p.m. ET) for three to four hours. A small amount of molten rock streamed from an old fissure some 2,000 feet (600 m) long, jetting clouds of steam. The Holuhraun lava field sits at the toe of Dyngjujokull glacier, between Bardarbunga volcano and Askja volcano. Askja volcano is located 30 miles (50 km) northeast of Bardarbunga. Fissures from earlier eruptions fractured the remote and rugged terrain. As the dike tunneled underground and neared the surface there, it shifted the ground, opening new cracks and widening older fractures, scientists with the University of Iceland reported.

New cracks in the glacier covering Bardarbunga volcano also hint at unrest beneath the ice.

Bardarbunga volcano is buried under an ice cap 1,310 to 1,970 feet (400 to 600 m) thick. Three circular crevasses, described as ice cauldrons, were discovered in the ice cap during a reconnaissance flight Aug. 27, the Met Office said. Each pit is about 32 to 50 feet (10 to 15 m) deep. The pits indicate either an eruption or geothermal heating that is melting ice deep below the glacier's surface, according to the Met Office.

Scientists can only detect a subglacial eruption at Bardarbunga by watching for melting and "listening" for the seismic signals of lava melting ice.

http://www.livescience.com/47632-iceland-volcano-new-eruption.html


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[Geology2] Why Aren't We Fully Monitoring These Active Volcanoes in the U.S.?



Why Aren't We Fully Monitoring These Active Volcanoes in the U.S.?


Mark Strauss
Filed to: Daily Explainer

Why Aren't We Fully Monitoring These Active Volcanoes in the U.S.?

The U.S. is one of the most volcanically rich countries in the world, with 169 active volcanoes. 57 of them are deemed high threats. But efforts to predict potential eruptions are being hampered by outdated equipment and lack of funding for scientific monitoring.

As we are currently seeing in Iceland, volcanoes can show signs of unrest for hours, days and months before erupting. When that violent energy is finally unleashed, the results can be catastrophic—and not only for those in the immediate vicinity. Noxious gas emissions have caused widespread lung problems. Airborne ash clouds are a threat to aviation. The 2010 eruption of Iceland's Eyjafjallajökull volcano, for instance, spewed an ash plume that drifted over Europe, causing the closure of large portions of air space and resulting in an estimated $5 billion loss to the world's GDP.

And, once that airborne ash falls to the ground, it can disrupt water, transportation and telecommunications systems for months or even years. In 1980, much of the $1 billion in damage ($2.9 billion today) from the eruption of Mount St. Helens was caused by volcanic ash—the total volume of which was equal to an area as wide and long as a football field and about 150 miles high.

In the United States, most volcanoes are located in Oregon, California, Washington State, Hawaii, Alaska, and Wyoming (Yellowstone). And it's the Volcano Hazards Program (VHP) at the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) that's tasked with monitoring them in real time.

Why Aren't We Fully Monitoring These Active Volcanoes in the U.S.?

Scientists have an array of tools to work with, including seismic detectors; equipment for measuring the amount of carbon dioxide and sulfur dioxide being emitted on a daily basis; GPS and Electronic Distance Meters that assess ground deformations (such as cracks and swellings); and instruments to look for thermal anomalies that could be the precursor to an eruption. Even video cameras—both standard and infrared—are used for this geological neighborhood watch. (Watch some of them online, here.)

How far in advance can we predict an eruption? I emailed that question to Charles Mandeville, a volcanologist and geochemist who is the Program Coordinator at VHP.

He responded:

If the volcano has an adequate amount of ground-based monitoring instruments deployed on and around it …we can usually predict eruptive activity weeks to several months before an eruption.

Here are a few examples of the amount of lead time within which we were able to detect unrest ahead of an eruption:

  • Mt. St. Helens, 2004-2006— 1 week
  • Redoubt, 2009— 5 months
  • Augustine, 2006— 6 months

In rare cases though, the detection of unrest and escalation to eruption can take place rapidly:

  • Kasatochi, 2008—2 days
  • Okmok, 2008— 62 minutes
  • Kileauea, Kamoamoa, 2011—24 hours

"Bear in mind that effective hazard mitigation measures can be completed even in an hour's time," Mandeville adds, "so early detection of unrest is critical, and this requires instruments in the ground."

The problem is, there aren't always enough instruments in the ground.

Minding the Gap

In 2005, the USGS conducted an inventory of the country's volcanoes, assessing the overall threat posed by each and comparing this to the existing monitoring capability.

Why Aren't We Fully Monitoring These Active Volcanoes in the U.S.?Expand

The resulting document detailed the monitoring gaps present at many of the most threatening volcanoes, and served as a blueprint for a proposed National Volcano Early Warning System (NVEWS).

As the report noted:

In the 25 years since the cataclysmic eruption of Mount St. Helens, scientific and technological advances in volcanology have been used to develop and test models of volcanic behavior and to make reliable forecasts of expected activity a reality. Until now, these technologies and methods have been applied on an ad hoc basis to volcanoes showing signs of activity. However, waiting to deploy a robust, modern monitoring effort until a hazardous volcano awakens and an unrest crisis begins is socially and scientifically unsatisfactory because it forces scientists, civil authorities, citizens, and businesses into "playing catch up" with the volcano, trying to get instruments and civil-defense measures in place before the unrest escalates and the situation worsens. Inevitably, this manner of response results in our missing crucial early stages of the volcanic unrest and hampers our ability to accurately forecast events. Restless volcanoes do not always progress to eruption; nevertheless, monitoring is necessary in such cases to minimize either over-reacting, which costs money, or under-reacting, which may cost lives.

Recognizing that there are potentially dangerous volcanoes within the United States and its Territories that have inadequate or no ground-based monitoring, the USGS Volcano Hazards Program….is preparing a plan for a National Volcano Early Warning System (NVEWS). NVEWS is based on a systematic assessment of various hazard and exposure (risk) factors that are used to calculate a threat score for each U.S. volcano. The resultant scores permit a relative ranking of U.S. volcanoes into five threat groups from very high to very low.

The level of monitoring called for by the threat assessment is compared to the current monitoring coverage at each volcano to identify those volcanoes with significant monitoring gaps that require improvements. The improvements should be implemented well in advance of the escalation of unrest with the aim of providing early detection of unrest and reliable forecasting of likely hazards.

So, what's been done since the publication of that report, nearly a decade ago?

Some of the changes have been organizational. The nation's five volcanic observatories have been assigned geographical areas of responsibility that, collectively, include all the potentially hazardous volcanoes listed in the 2005 report.

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The five observatories are responsible for volcano monitoring, community preparedness, managing volcanic crises and coordinating research in their areas of responsibility, which are:

  • Hawaiian Volcano Observatory – Hawaii
  • Cascades Volcano Observatory – Idaho, Oregon, and Washington
  • Alaska Volcano Observatory – Alaska and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands
  • California Volcano Observatory – California and Nevada
  • Yellowstone Volcano Observatory – Arizona, Colorado, Montana, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming

Moreover, according to Mandeville, the "monitoring gaps" have begun to be addressed. Previous years, for instance, have seen the modernization of the monitoring network in Yellowstone, where analog radio technology was replaced by digital telemetry and, says Mandeville, "Nearly 20 seismic stations received improvements through a process of equipment swaps and installations, resulting in a network more resilient to power outages and better able to detect faint volcanic signals." New equipment was also installed at the Pagan volcano in the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands last summer, and there are plans to do likewise at Mt. Hood in Oregon.

"We are, at present, about 29% towards completion of the NVEWS implementation," Mandeville says—which is also a way of saying that they're still 71% away from completion. Why, after nearly a decade, hasn't more progress been made?

The Usual Suspects

Why Aren't We Fully Monitoring These Active Volcanoes in the U.S.?

As with all government projects, the USGS has had to navigate its way through the modern-day Scylla and Charybdis of funding and bureaucracy.

For starters, the USGS can't simply set up shop on any patch of U.S. land anytime it wants to. As Mandeville explains:

Many of our potentially active volcanoes in the U.S. are on lands managed by the U.S. Forest Service. In other cases potential sites for ground-based instrumentation may fall on privately held lands or tribal-held lands. As such, if we are planning to install monitoring instruments on lands managed by another federal or state agency, we have to apply for permits to those agencies.

That requires fostering relationships, and that takes time. And the installation of the instruments must be kept as low profile as possible to preserve the pristine nature of the site.

As for the budget, much of the activity required to close the volcano monitoring gaps didn't begin in earnest until a few years back, when the VHP received $15.2 million in funding between 2009-2011, through the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act's stimulus funding package. But, in 2011, no action was taken on an authorization bill introduced by Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) for the National Volcano Early Warning System. And no other authorization bills earmarked for NVEWS have been introduced to Congress since then. As such, the Volcano Hazards Program has had to make due with the money in its general budget.

And, according to Mandeville:

The declining overall VHP budget since 2012 has forced us to defer maintenance on monitoring networks, particularly in the Alaska region for the past few years. The impacts of a declining Program budget were exacerbated by sequestration in FY2013 and we are now dealing with repair of failed monitoring networks in Alaska in FY2014. Fortunately, we did have an increase of $400,000 in the FY2014 Omnibus and much of that increment in VHP funding is being applied this summer to restoration of failed networks in Alaska. Even with the $400,000 increment to our budget, it will take several years to restore all of them. In addition, some of our budget increase has to be applied to closing monitoring gaps at other Very-High-Threat volcanoes in the lower 48 states such as Mount Shasta and Mount Lassen in California and Glacier Peak in Washington State.

Glacier Peak, in fact, is an example of how the lack of funding is hampering efforts to close the gaps in volcano monitoring. Despite being a "Very High Threat" volcano, Glacier Peak has, at present, only one seismometer in place. VHP has been trying to make progress this summer by acquiring high-resolution LIDAR data that will help generate a new geologic map of the volcano and help to determine the optimal location for new ground-based instrumentation. Mandeville says that VHP was only able to leverage the funding for the LIDAR project through partnerships with other USGS programs and the U.S. Forest Service.

Making Due With Less

For volcanoes that still lack ground-based instrumentation, VHP is unable to forecast possible eruptions. In those cases, its efforts are limited to eruption detection through remote-sensing satellites, which provide images of a specific location only once every 4 to 8 days.

Why Aren't We Fully Monitoring These Active Volcanoes in the U.S.?

Another approach has been checking data from the World Wide Lightning Location Network, which has sensors around the globe and across the United States. It's common to have thousands of lightning strikes in a very confined area near the volcanic plume during an eruption. (One theory is that the lightning is generated by ash particles colliding with one another.) When VHP sees this in a high latitude area with no weather system capable of generating lightning—such as in Alaska— it's usually due to an eruption.

How much longer until the USGS is finally able to close the volcano monitoring gap that it identified back in 2005? Mandeville says that "we may get towards significant completion over a ten-year period," but even this will be mostly limited to Very-High-Threat and High-Threat volcanoes. That timeline could be shortened if the USGS received additional funding.

It's enough to make you erupt in frustration.

http://io9.com/why-arent-we-fully-monitoring-these-active-volcanoes-in-1628168551
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[Geology2] Holu­hraun erupting again!





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Re: [californiadisasters] ADMIN READ: California Fire News Spam on Yahoo Groups

Thanks for the heads-up, Kim.

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On Sun, 8/31/14, Kim Noyes kimnoyes@gmail.com [californiadisasters] <californiadisasters@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

Subject: [californiadisasters] ADMIN READ: California Fire News Spam on Yahoo Groups
To: "CaliforniaDisasters" <californiadisasters@yahoogroups.com>
Date: Sunday, August 31, 2014, 9:48 AM


 









Yesterday, Robert
O'Connor who is the force behind the Cal Fire News, sent
out a mass fundraising campaign emailing to the various
Yahoo Groups he is on, to wit, the California region fire
and scanner groups. These emailings also went directly to
individuals including myself, as well.


I don't typically get into these
things here but I have had problems with this man in the
past on multiple occasions over different matters. His
latest course of action stinks of high hypocrisy given his
bossy, self-righteous, and condescending shit fit with me in
the past over my posting links to my blog on the very exact
same Yahoo Groups. However, in my case, I was not asking for
money and my blog is not monetized, but rather my content
directly related to the groups in question.


Adding to presumptuous of this is the
mysterious stoppage of new posts on Mr. O'Connor's
blog seven weeks ago today and yet he is asking for five
grand these seven weeks later with nary any new content.


This man was banned from this group yeas ago because
during the Tea Fire in Montecito he was directly lifting
content from California Disasters verbatim and posting it on
California Fire News without any attribution whatsoever.


As if this wasn't bad enough this guy
abhors and reviles law enforcement of all types in all
situations while apparently sympathizing with all types of
protestors and anarchists and rioters. Given the rank
liberalness of BayScan he is allowed to run amok there and
dissenting voices are moderated which is why I do not do
that group the honor of ever sharing anything.


Needless to say, I will not be
contributing a cent to this man's $5000 Fundly
fundraiser and I do not recommend anybody do so either.

Kim Patrick Noyes ~
California Disaster Owner


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[californiadisasters] ADMIN READ: California Fire News Spam on Yahoo Groups



Yesterday, Robert O'Connor who is the force behind the Cal Fire News, sent out a mass fundraising campaign emailing to the various Yahoo Groups he is on, to wit, the California region fire and scanner groups. These emailings also went directly to individuals including myself, as well.

I don't typically get into these things here but I have had problems with this man in the past on multiple occasions over different matters. His latest course of action stinks of high hypocrisy given his bossy, self-righteous, and condescending shit fit with me in the past over my posting links to my blog on the very exact same Yahoo Groups. However, in my case, I was not asking for money and my blog is not monetized, but rather my content directly related to the groups in question.

Adding to presumptuous of this is the mysterious stoppage of new posts on Mr. O'Connor's blog seven weeks ago today and yet he is asking for five grand these seven weeks later with nary any new content.

This man was banned from this group yeas ago because during the Tea Fire in Montecito he was directly lifting content from California Disasters verbatim and posting it on California Fire News without any attribution whatsoever.

As if this wasn't bad enough this guy abhors and reviles law enforcement of all types in all situations while apparently sympathizing with all types of protestors and anarchists and rioters. Given the rank liberalness of BayScan he is allowed to run amok there and dissenting voices are moderated which is why I do not do that group the honor of ever sharing anything.

Needless to say, I will not be contributing a cent to this man's $5000 Fundly fundraiser and I do not recommend anybody do so either.

Kim Patrick Noyes ~
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[californiadisasters] On This Date In California Weather History (August 31)



2007: A severe thunderstorm in Lake Elsinore produced severe winds, which downed trees, power lines and caused roof damage.
Another heavy thunderstorm hit Wrightwood and produced a debris flow that damaged roads along Sheep Creek and trapped motorists.
This was the first of 3 consecutive days (also 9.1 and 9.2) of flash flooding in Wrightwood.
Other thunderstorms dropped a blanket of hail over vast areas between Big Bear Lake and the San Gorgonio Wilderness.
A significant accumulation of small hail was seen for many days at the top of Mt. San Gorgonio.

1998: Yuma sets their all time record warm low temperature at 94° F.

1998: Strong thunderstorms developed each day starting on 8.29 and ending on this day.
1.5" of rain fell at Apple Valley, 0.77" fell in only 45 minutes at Wrightwood, and 0.68" fell in only 30 minutes at Forest Falls.
Homes and roads were flooded with 4'-6' of water in Hesperia and Apple Valley.
Rock slides occurred in Mill Creek.
Roads were flooded in Sugarloaf and Forest Falls.
Flash flooding was also recorded in Hemet.
Severe thunderstorm wind gusts of 86 mph hit Sage (south of Hemet).
Gusts of 50 mph were recorded at Rialto and gusts of 45 mph hit San Marcos.
Trees and power lines were downed. Fires were started by lightning near Barona Ranch.
Record heat occurred near the coast as well on these same days.
Temperatures hit 112° F in Yorba Linda, 110° F in Hemet and Riverside, and over 100° F in most of Orange County.
It was 114° F in Dulzura on 8.29.

1987: Thunderstorms moved into the southern portion of the San Joaquin Valley in Kern County from the Tehachapis.
Straight line wind damage occurred to several farm buildings.
5 dairy cows were killed and 7 injured.
Bakersfield recorded a wind gust of 49 mph from the south.

1977: The wettest August on record in San Diego ended on this day with 2.13".

1972: Hurricane Hyacinth moved as far west as 125 West before recurving to the northeast.
The remnants made landfall between Los Angeles and San Diego on 9.3 with winds of 25 mph and rainfall of up to one inch in the mountains from 8.29 to 9.6.
This tropical cyclone holds the distinction of traveling the farthest west before recurving and making landfall in Southern California.
This occurred during the El Niño of 1972-73.
Only 0.44" was measured in San Diego.

1967: Hurricane Katrina crossed the southern tip of Baja California, then traversed almost the entire length of the Gulf of California before making landfall again and rapidly weakening.
More than 2" of rain fell on 8.30 and on this day.
2" fell at La Quinta and the city was cut off for several hours.
150 homes were damaged by floods in Palm Desert and Indian Wells.
Numerous roads were washed out in the Coachella Valley.
The Fort Irwin road north of Barstow was flooded, isolating the army base on 8.30.

1964: Fresno received 0.25" of rain, making it the wettest August day ever.
Hanford also had its wettest day ever in August with 0.34" of rain.

1955: A prolonged heat wave started on this day and ended on 9.7.
It was 110° F in LA on 9.1, an all time record.
It was 98° F in San Diego and 103° F in Santa Ana on this day, both highest temperatures on record for August.

1944: All-time record stretch of consecutive days with a high in the triple digits in Las Vegas ends at 66 days.

1939: Sea surface temperatures off the coast for the month of August were in the upper 70s, with some reports near San Diego of 80° F.
This occurred ahead of the tropical storms of the following month of 9.1939.

1928: It was 42° F in Escondido, the lowest temperature on record for August.

1889: LA recorded its greatest 24 hour rainfall amount for August at 0.61".

1887: Fresno had a record low of 50° F.
This is the oldest temperature record for Fresno still in the books.

Source: NWS Hanford, Phoenix, & San Diego

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[californiadisasters] Kit's Quebecoise CL-415's To SoCal Update For 8/29/14



For reasons that elude my understanding, I have not been sharing these posts with my own group but have been sharing them on Fire Bombers group on Facebook. This ends now. Kit over on Airtankers group on Yahoo has authorized me to share his newsy posts which I have been doing albeit on a more limited fashion. Henceforth, I will title these posts "Kit's this or that Update".... just an FYI for you all:
 
"Looks like Quebec is sending two(2) CL-415's to Southern California too begin their yearly contract in SoCal.  The scoopers are Tankers #245 (C-GQBG) and sister ship #246 (C-GQBI). The contract i believe starts on the first of September and runs through December.  Last year the scoopers were extended for almost two months, with the way things have turned out this year they may not get much flying time."




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[californiadisasters] Kit's Tanker #912 Update For August 30, 2014



For reasons that elude my understanding, I have not been sharing these posts with my own group but have been sharing them on Fire Bombers group on Facebook. This ends now. Kit over on Airtankers group on Yahoo has authorized me to share his newsy posts which I have been doing albeit on a more limited fashion. Henceforth, I will title these posts "Kit's this or that Update".... just an FYI for you all: 

"Ten Tanker Air Carriers DC-10 Tanker #912 (N522AX) has joined her sisters Tanker #910 (N450AX) and #911 (N17085).  Tanker #912 arrived at Castle on Saturday morning (8-30) from Albuquerque NM. Castle,CA formerly Castle AFB which was home for many many years to the mighty B-52 is now hosting the biggest Tankers in the world. "Castle California is truly Tanker City U.S.A." at least for the time being. There have been no reports of the Tankers working the "Happy Camp Complex" as weather conditions were not good for operations today."





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