Sentences with phrase «number of fires burning»

Based on the current number of fires burning in the west, the obscene number of tornadoes this year, so far, the massive flooding that continues in our midwest region, the only assurance I have our current administration is paying attention is in their ability to announce a region officially declared a disaster zone.

Today, a good number of these fires burn north of the farthest northern extent of the Siberian tree line in 77 to 86 degrees F (25 to 30 C) temperatures.

Not exact matches

In 1984, after Farrah Fawcett played in The Burning Bed, a TV drama that told the true story of a battered wife who ended thirteen years of marital torment by setting fire to the gasoline - soaked bed of her sleeping husband, a number of copy - cat assaults occurred across the nation.

Fire crews are making an unheard - of scramble as a huge number of lightning - sparked wildfires continue to burn across drought - parched regions of Oregon and Washington.

«In the northern Rockies, there's been an increase in the number of fires and the area burned well exceeding 1,000 percent since the 1970s and early 1980s,» Westerling said.

But America's problem with coal fires is small compared with that of the rest of the world, where untold thousands of coal fires — no one can come up with a number judged to be even remotely accurate — burn unchecked.

This shift from cool to warm in the North Atlantic has already had an impact; this past year at least 89,000 individual fires burned 9.5 million acres in the western U.S. Worse yet, forest management practices that have increased the number of trees in western woods — as well as relatively wet preceding decades — have put in place an abundance of fuel for future fires.

High confidence in the reliability of fire prediction is lacking today, even as Western drought and the effects of climate change drive up the total acres burned nationwide and also the average size of each fire, ballooning the number of on - call U.S. Forest Service firefighters and the total costs to battle the flames.

When these fuels accumulate over a number of years, they can lead to unusually intense fires when the area does burn.

In addition, our fire weather season length metric captures variations in the number of days each year that fires are likely to burn, but it does not account for inter-annual variations in fire season severity.

We found that the average number of large wildfires burning each year and the total area burning in these fires have both increased dramatically since the 1970s.

The number of acres of forest burning yearly in large Western fires ballooned nine-fold from 1984 to 2015, with climate pollution and natural changes in the weather playing roughly equal roles in driving the deadly trend, research published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences concluded.

The years with the earliest spring snowmelt, which was one - third of the total number of years we studied, account for more than 70 percent of the area burned in large forest wildfires, and 43 percent of the area burned in nonforest fires.

However, the number of large (greater than 1,000 acres or 400 hectares) wildfires has been growing since the 1980s, and the area burned in these fires has grown even more.

But the dabs are created using highly volatile butane gas, and a number of fires, explosions and severe burns have been linked to the production of this marijuana concentrate, said study lead author John Stogner, an assistant professor of criminology at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.

Press the start button to ignite the pellets, which are fed into the fire box with an auger, where a controlled number of pellets are lit and burned (depending on the temperature setting selected).

Annual data on the number of wildfires and burned area also show an increase from 1968 to 1994, and are significantly correlated with both fire hazard indices.»

In remote mountains of Mexico (including in Baja) fire frequencies decline later (after 1930s or 1950s) or continue burning, uninterrupted, and in a number of places in the west there are earlier fire frequency drop - offs.

Fires in western forests began increasing abruptly in the 1980s, as measured by area burned, the number of large fires, and length of the fire seFires in western forests began increasing abruptly in the 1980s, as measured by area burned, the number of large fires, and length of the fire sefires, and length of the fire season.

«The 2015 season here in Alaska is day by day progressing to be a truly outstanding fire year relative to our rather brief historical record of annual area burned (1950 is as far back as I feel provides rather accurate numbers),»

«The 2015 season here in Alaska is day by day progressing to be a truly outstanding fire year relative to our rather brief historical record of annual area burned (1950 is as far back as I feel provides rather accurate numbers),» Scott Rupp, a fire ecologist at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks, said in an email.

But, with a doubling of the number of wildfires for the high Arctic and an extension of the permafrost fire season into early April this year, we may well consider this to be a zone of now, near permanent, burning — Permaburn.

The average number of large fires burning each year on Forest Service land has increased at least 10-fold in the Northern Rocky Mountain states of Wyoming, Idaho, and Montana.

On the other hand, the number of sites burned during the 1500s and the 1600s was 38 and 41, respectively, and corresponded to relatively large fire areas.

Intense, destructive wildfires are burning throughout the state, and while September and October are the peak of the typical fire season in California, the number of fires exhibiting extreme behavior and «dangerous» rates of spread has been far higher than usual due to the ubiquity of tinder - dry, drought - cured brush and trees.

In Alaska, the number of acres burned each season varies dramatically but accumulating evidence indicates that climate change is increasing the extent of fire and contributing to extreme events such as the 2015 Alaska fire season, when over 5.1 million acres burned, or the 2016 conflagration in Ft McMurray, Alberta.

The adjacent charts plots the number of Canadian forest fires and hectares burned.

Besides retrofitting two - strokes in the Philippines, the environmental non-profit will also be collaborating with the U.K. - based Shell Foundation to reduce the number of global deaths caused by indoor air pollution — or more precisely, the smoke the billows forth from traditional fires and stoves used in homes in developing countries — by distributing cleaner - burning cook stoves.

Our burn injury lawyers handle both workers» compensation and third - party claims stemming from a number of accidents, including refinery fires, chemical plant explosions, construction site accidents and chemical exposure.