Sadly, I've witnessed this exact situation first hand during the Angora Fire. Growing up in South Lake I recall seeing piles of debris for winter burns all over Angora's fire lookout (its been a turnaround for my bike rides and trail runs for 35 years). Then it stopped. Angora burst into flames, and now I'm seeing the piles again. Fire's are required for a health forest, and we stop them before they get to do their job. We are now in tinder box all over this state. My CalFire buddies have been talking about this for years...sadly their worst case is happening. Building in heavily forested areas is downright dangerous today.
For some reason, the air quality maps show Vacaville having cleaner air. What about having the game at Vacaville High or maybe a JC if our air quality is bad?
They are usually contract aircraft. Here's a good source of information on fire aviation: https://fireaviation.com/
Aircraft will cool things off but without firefighters on the ground they won't stop the fire. I doubt they would have made any difference when that fire was racing at Paradise.
-UCD opens up -24 Point fav over Sac St
Other BIG SKY games of note w playoff implications:
-Weber -6 vs Idaho
-Montana -7 vs MSU
-EWU -20.5 @ PSU
That’s a fair line on UCD. A couple things to consider:
-We don’t know Sac st QB STATUS (prob out but see below)
-Rivalry game, throw everything out the window
- Sac St off a bye (with game cancelled they didn’t play, should be healthier. BUT not a normal bye as they didn’t spend week prepping for UCD as they expected to play NAU)
-Off the big loss, do the Ags come out a little flat? (May take them a quarter or two to get going - see it all the time after a team takes a big loss in an important game esp when playing a team considered inferior)
I can’t find a lick of info on Thomson and whether he’ll be back this week. I tweeted a beat writer for their student newspaper and he had no clue either. Guessing since he’s been out all year not likely to play this week but we don’t know if he was going to play last week given the cancelation. Finding injury info is not easy.
It's really interesting how often the real time air quality has changed at Davis. It's currently the second worst in California at 229 or "very unhealthy." Sacramento is the third worst at 226. I'm quite sure it will change significantly within two hours. Chico is the worst at 331 or "hazardous."
I'm quite sure the game will be cancelled at the current level.
The air quality current in Sacramento is the worst I've ever seen. It was 227 at 7 pm. 151-200 is considered unhealthy. 201-300 is considered very unhealthy.
Apparently the range for the past 48 hours is anywhere from 25 to 236. As of this typing, it's at 200.
If I'm reading this correctly, then the forecast is that it will get progressively worse up to Thursday. It doesn't seem to predict more than 2.5 days ahead.
I'm quite sure they don't factor fire containment in the equation just as much as I'm quite sure Sagarin and Massey don't factor key injuries in their equation.
Edit: The forecast is way off for today anyway since it forecasted air quality of 6 to 21.
Maybe a neutral site, but not more than 50 miles away, which doesn't do anything for the air quality. They're not playing this game in an empty stadium
Interesting article, but vague and light on facts. Between 1930 and the mid 1980s, the biggest fire in Yellowstone was 18,000 acres. This author helped write a fire plan for Yellowstone in the mid 1980s, and in 1988 the massive Yellowstone fire burned for months, burning between 800,000 and 1.2 Million acres.
Years ago I read that the size of our fires had grown dramatically, and "Super Fires" burned so hot, they killed nutrients in the soil as well as all seeds and pods.
The author also doesn't comment on forest equilibrium, the elimination of most lumber mills in California,
'super fires,' if such things exist, don't burn equally hot everywhere. Sure, there are areas that burn very hot, but it's often a patchwork. Your argument about fire sizes between 1930 and the 80s misses one of the effects of vigorous suppression. Putting out all fires as soon as wecould allowed the massive buildup of fuels. That has plenty to do with the fires we face today, though there are other factors. As for Pyne not talking about the elimination of California lumber mills, that's not a fire ecology issue, it's an economic issue.
You know what really puts out big fires? Winter. The 1988 Yellowstone fires didn't burn for months because of Pyne's fire plans. They burned forever because conditions were ripe for that.
Well this thread got strangely political... anyway, regardless of where we play we're gonna smack J Street Tech around. Finish the season strong, rock the playoffs. Let's go Aggies!