[gb]

This time rains may amount to something.

[cartman]

Source? Links?

[zephyr]

[treeswarper]

This sounds like the way it used to be. We'd get rains in September. But then it would dry out and we'd get the east winds and slash burns that were set during those rains would be getting away. Not to worry, there's not that much slash burning now.

[gb]

[HermitThrush]

I hope so!

[RichP]

Bring it on!

[Pyrites]

Pyrites wrote: But fire season is likely near over. Why - you think it's going to rain soon? Sometimes the rains don't arrive till October or November. I own a calendar, with a photo, "Super Moon over the Central Cascades". The season changes. Rains are sometimes quite late. Fires can continue to burn for months then. But days get short, and humidity goes up. Fires burn much slower. At night they don't do much at all. You can work much closer, usually. Fires that are "full suppression" can have effective lines put around them, terrain willing. Fires like the one off in Indian Heaven can, and should burn around in those conditions.

[ale_capone]

[Ancient Ambler]

More support for a change to wetter weather in the NWS Climate Prediction Center's 6 to 10 day and 8 to 14 day outlooks, both of which on September 10 suggest below normal temperatures and above normal precipitation for Washington, Oregon, Idaho and western Montana from next week out to September 24. That will be welcome if it pans out.

[Abert]

Since I bought plane tickets to Denver yesterday for later this week after giving up on trying to guess on the weather and smoke for anywhere closer, I'd expect all sorts of improvement in the forecasts for the northwest in the coming days.

[Naches Hiker]

The rains will only be a fire slowing event for most of the west. Lot os mop up will still have to be done after this weekend and next week. Also, models are varying for how much rain is supposed to fall. I've seen places that aren't going to get wetting rain (>.10") and some places are supposed to get more than 3" of rain.

[wanderwild]

[MtnGoat]

From Cliff Mass's weather blog

[Pyrites]

Similar to stand made at Multnomah Lodge, there was a stand made at Waterton Lakes Townsite last night. The Kenow fire made a fifteen kilometer run from near the Continental Divide to east of town. Calgary Fire sent engines, two trucks (ladders) and fifty FF's two hundred miles to protect the famous Prince of Wales Hotel. It's that historical hotel that sits on top of a hill east of town. Someone has the foresight to provide water and hydrants. It sounds as if they lost few if any significant buildings in town. Evacuation sounds as if it went well, even if rate of spread was high. If you've been there recently you've seen the Park progressively reducing fuel load on edges and forested areas extending into town. The visitor center on the highway burned. I expect more will be public when evacuated residents return.