Thread by @Sustainable2050

September heatwave in California: Sunday temperatures expected to hit 43°C (110F) in much of the state, 49°C (121F) in Palm Springs, and 51°C (124F) in Furnace Creek, Death Valley. Wildfire risk would seem high once more.

https://twitter.com/WeatherProf/status/1301530187008536576

New rapidly growing wildfire in California: 125,000 acres = 500 km².

https://twitter.com/NickyNaus/status/1302592911956013061?s=19

Narrow escape

https://twitter.com/ABC7/status/1302603478930464769?s=19

Over 14,000(!) firefighters battling California's many wildfires now.

https://twitter.com/CAL_FIRE/status/1303004031090999296?s=20

Massive wave of wildfires in California (and Oregon):

https://twitter.com/Weather_West/status/1303458376085508096?s=19

This wildfire, north of Sacramento, traveled over 40 km in one day!

https://twitter.com/weather_west/status/1303542721710182401?s=21

And this one, in southern Oregon, already forced 80,000 people to evacuate.

https://twitter.com/greatwinter2017/status/1303536962914062339?s=21

This is what’s left of Mill City, Oregon (population 2,000).

https://twitter.com/rahulrajnews/status/1303442206561382407?s=21

The Creek fire, one of many, grew to 570 km2 in just 4 days, and is still 0% contained. Expected containment date: 15 October(!). Tough times for @CAL_FIRE

https://twitter.com/cal_fire/status/1303408475192479744?s=21

Early afternoon in Stayton, northern Oregon:

https://twitter.com/cpitawanichkgw/status/1303417488814698496

Dark morning in California:

https://twitter.com/Weather_West/status/1303755344414302208?s=19

Cameras often adjust pictures to correct for darkness. This gives a good impression.

https://twitter.com/TTremblingEarth/status/1303720193634435073?s=19

Smoke from California's wildfires now stretching across the US, from the Pacific Ocean to the NE Atlantic coast.

https://twitter.com/AerosolWatch/status/1303724527839514626?s=19

Good morning, San Francisco.

https://twitter.com/ABCLiz/status/1303730498531811329?s=19

US National Weather Service, Bay Area: The smoke situation in California is "beyond the scope of our models".

https://twitter.com/NWSBayArea/status/1303720348605538305?s=19

While the @nytimes practices #ClimateSilence...

https://twitter.com/leahstokes/status/1303885340873232387?s=19

.. Barack Obama uses clear language.

https://twitter.com/barackobama/status/1303859640980172800

Combined satellite views show the extent of the wildfires in California and Oregon, and their smoke field over the Pacific Ocean.

https://twitter.com/weatherdak/status/1303454482869575681

This is incredible: 4 of California’s largest wildfires on record are burning right now! Three from the August wave still burning, one recent fire jumping into the top-10 too now.
(252,000 acres = 1,000 km2)

https://twitter.com/stevebowenwx/status/1303895965242470401

San Francisco, Wednesday morning.
Via @Weather_West !

https://twitter.com/jarami_bond/status/1303842190288850944

Massive fires in Oregon too; the current wave already burned 3,700 km² there!

https://twitter.com/OregonOEM/status/1304118810580905985?s=19

.. and what that looks like on the ground:

https://twitter.com/Independent/status/1304124986173476864?s=19

. @latimes is clear about climate change as a driving factor behind California's massive wildfire wave:

https://twitter.com/Sammy_Roth/status/1304077715264270336?s=19

The August Complex fire has now become California's largest on record (1900 km² burnt), pushing the 2018 Mendocino fire into 2nd place.
And several fires merging have created the 1,000 km² Elkhorn fire, not too far away.

https://twitter.com/TheMendoVoice/status/1304127849784254464?s=19

So the situation got even more extreme: half of California's top-10 largest wildfires in 90 years of records is burning right now!

https://twitter.com/CAL_FIRE/status/1304123896103280645?s=19

Those 5 ongoing Californian wildfires alone have now already burned 1.7 million acres (almost 7,000 km2). That’s 1.6% of California, and 1/6 of the total area of the Netherlands!