Eastern #ButteCo heads up, thunderstorm building east of Berry Creek, producing moderate/heavy rain & small hail approx 1/2 inch, hearing the thunder in Palermo
Here's a direct update for along the Hwy 32 area taken from this afternoons briefing by CAL FIRE/Butte County
Here's a 6 hour look from South Oroville as the #ParkFire takes off around the 11 am hour this morning
Cohasset Hill camera located north of Cohasset as #ParkFire #ButteCo approaching the area
Thanks CAL FIRE/Butte County Dozer 2140 for all the work today on #RailbridgeFire. Going past our driveway Palermo #ButteCo
PG&E Copter working the #RailbridgeFire not far from home
10 Tanker 911 headed back into #ThompsonFire #ButteCo
With the heat, the forecasted wind, low humidity, and the yearly dreaded sale of fireworks, many of us are feeling a bit anxious.
Let's take that nervous energy and put it to good use.
Share your Dos or Do Nots.
*Please add yours to the comments
๐๐ก๐ข๐ฌ ๐ข๐ฌ ๐๐๐ ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐ญ๐ข๐ฆ๐ ๐ญ๐จ ๐ฉ๐ฎ๐ฅ๐ฅ ๐จ๐ฎ๐ญ ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐ฐ๐๐๐ ๐ฐ๐๐๐ค๐๐ซ/๐ฅ๐๐ฐ๐ง ๐ฆ๐จ๐ฐ๐๐ซ ๐จ๐ซ ๐ญ๐ซ๐๐๐ญ๐จ๐ซ ๐ญ๐จ ๐๐ข๐ฌ๐ค ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ๐ซ ๐๐ข๐๐ฅ๐!! ๐๐จ๐ญ ๐๐ฏ๐๐ง in ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐ฆ๐จ๐ซ๐ง๐ข๐ง๐ !
What you can do:
Take time in the morning when it's cool to clear anything flammable from around your house.
#Zone0
The first five feet from your home are the most important. Keeping the area closest to buildings, structures, and decks clear will prevent embers from igniting materials that can spread the fire to your home.
Why? The majority of homes lost to wildfire are ignited by flying embers. Embers can travel miles ahead of the active front of wildfires.
#Zone1:
Create a separation between trees, shrubs, and items that could catch fire, such as patio furniture, wood piles, swing sets, etc
Regularly clear dead or dry vegetation and create space between trees. During times of drought, when watering is limited, pay special attention to clearing dead or dying material.
More on defensible space zones:
https://www.fire.ca.gov/dspace
Know your evacuation zone and your escape routes. Have a backup plan.
Evac Zones Butte:
https://buttecountygis.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=9c92e0a2d2e0415fa5248d70cd644a82
Evac Zones Yuba:
https://www.yuba.org/press_detail_T52_R147.php
We save family members' evacuation zones under their contact info.
Sign up emergency alerts:
Butte:
https://public.coderedweb.com/CNE/en-US/BFA19C579EA5?isMobile=true
Yuba: https://www.yuba.org/emergency/
Eyes wide open/ Be watchful
Mesoscale Precipitation Discussion 0061
NWS Weather Prediction Center College Park MD
958 PM EST Sat Feb 17 2024
Areas affected...Bay Area into the Sacramento Valley
Concerning...Heavy rainfall...#Flashflooding possible
Valid 180258Z - 180758Z
SUMMARY...
Heavy rainfall rates are expected with bands of locally stronger convection over the next few hours. Areas of flooding will be possible over the next few hours.
DISCUSSION...
The latest GOES-W IR satellite imagery in conjunction with dual-pol radars from the Bay Area and the Central Valley have been showing some uptick in small-scale bands of convection with some some cooling cloud top activity noted as a cold front arrives in off the Pacific Ocean.
Strong forcing aloft associated with the arrival of an upper-level trough working in conjunction with a ribbon of modest instability and localized orographics have been allowing for rainfall rates to
increase over the last few hours, and over the last hour, some rates have been reaching as high as 0.5" to 1.0"/hour with the stronger semi-organized convective cells.
Over the next few hours, some semi-organized linear bands of convection will continue to impact areas near and a bit south of the Bay Area, but also farther east into the Sacramento Valley
where even some brief training of convection will be likely given the orientation of the activity with the deeper layer southwest flow aloft ahead of the upper-level trough.
Expect rainfall rates to reach easily into the 0.5" to 1.0"/hour range with the convection over the next 2 to 3 hours, which will foster some additional rainfall totals of as much as 1.5 to 2.5
inches.
Already, there have been some areas of flooding around the Bay Area, and additional areas of flooding will be possible as these
additional rounds of heavy rainfall advance inland. Gradually, the passage of the cold front will allow for the deeper moisture axis to advance well off to the east, along with the better forcing aloft, and thus, the rain
This Afternoon
Showers and possibly a thunderstorm, mainly before 4pm, then a chance of showers and thunderstorms after 4pm. Some of the storms could produce heavy rain. High near 56. South southeast wind 14 to 17 mph, with gusts as high as 25 mph. Chance of precipitation is 90%. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.
