Weather Radar, Birds, In Addition To Smoke

Taking a prissy walk inward Seattle's Magnuson common tonight, I saw together with heard a lot of geese inward the air, and, of course, I idea nearly aeroplane migration.   So I wanted to depository fiscal establishment jibe the Doppler weather condition radar when I got dwelling to meet which agency the birds were moving aloft.

The  (9:08 PM) Doppler weather condition radar from Langley Hill on the the WA coast was fairly dramatic, showing rigid southward motion for our feathered friends.  How tin I tell?   The colors say the speed of the air towards (green or blue) or away (yellow or red) from the radar.  The couplet of greenish to the NW together with ruby to the SE say us that the birds of flight south/southeast.  The don't similar flight offshore.



Compare this to the designing inward May....just the opposite, birds flight north.


Then I started to muse nearly fume together with birds, together with took a await at the Doppler velocity imagery during the menses of greatest fume (roughly August 21-22) at 9:09 PM--and I was surprised what I saw (see below).   It appears that the radar was picking upwards the fume offshore (all the greyish colors, piffling velocity), inward contrast to the birds over land, who were heading to the south.



H5N1 few days subsequently when the fume was much less (August 25th), the offshore radar returns were gone.


The birds kept flight to the smoky periods, peradventure they were high plenty to move inward a higher identify the worst of it.  I did honor less birds singing inward my backyard during the worst of the smoke. 

Finally, today I learned nearly around other touching of the wildfire smoke---regional stores were stripped of the amend character furnace filters.  Absolutely none inward the local Fred Meyer store.  This may move a big trouble organization chance for someone-- imagine starting an Air Quality Store.  Imagine-- a broad alternative of filter masks,,home air character filtration systems, particle sensors, together with yes, fifty-fifty furnace filters.  Could fifty-fifty run tours to places alongside construct clean air.


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