Shuswap Your Classified Connection / Vol. 24 No. 29 Friday, July 19, 2013
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Shuswap ranks high for fire danger By Barb Brouwer
market news staff
Summer is sizzling and so are conditions in local forests. Kayla Pepper, fire information officer with the Kamloops Fire Centre, said Tuesday that most of the Shuswap is now in the high danger zone. This is just one step down from extreme – the highest designation used by the centre to describe the risk of wildfire in the forests. Only a pocket around Seymour River is classified as moderate to low. While there have been no recent
wildfires in the Salmon Arm Zone, Pepper said continuing warm and dry weather conditions with the possibility of lightning are concerns. “The fire danger rating is definitely increasing and the wind hasn’t helped,” she says. And chances are the weather is not going to change much. According to an Environment Canada long-range forecast, there’s a 70 to 80 per cent chance that Salmon Arm will experience a hotter-than-normal summer. But, adds meteorologist Doug Lundquist, that also means there is a 20 to 30 per cent chance it won’t.
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“Seasonal forecasts are unreliable, but that being said, since the mid ’80s, the climate in general has been warmer, so it’s more likely,” he says. “That, combined with general trends, makes it relatively reliable, but there’s no indication of how much higher.” Lundquist says averages don’t say a lot on their own. Rain plays an integral part and there is no useful data beyond two weeks when trying to predict rain. Noting there have always been cycles in weather, Lundquist says the ability to get a handle on how much higher or lower normals might be is an emerging science.
“Reliance on short-term forecasts is critical,” he says, noting the Shuswap experiences two summers – early, wet monsoons followed by mid to late summer when hot and dry conditions with thunderstorms become a critical issue in the forest. “It’s been dry since the beginning of July and it’s going to be the same for two weeks,” he says. “That tells me more, it means way more.” Pepper reminds residents and tourist alike that an open-burning prohibition is in place and that campfires, which are still permitted, must be no larger than a halfmetre by a half-metre and in a contained fire pit only.
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