This is pretty much what happened after a hell week back in 2001. The smoke created some pretty intense inversions which led to some primo conditions for crews to get a handle on things. In Okanogan County there were a couple days where it was around 105 with full sun while south county was in the mid 70’s socked in.

what a nuts day just north of here. feel very fortunate for now. good grief hell on earth for some colleagues though. sad and disturbing. woodland urban fires are scary AF

It’s terms of the “big ones” this just isn’t true. Paradise, Sonoma, Boulder, Lahaina, Altadena all weren’t arson. Palisades was but it wasn’t during the high wind event, so still applies that you don’t typically see arson as the cause of the more major events during these types of windstorms.

Yeah it brought a strong West wind east of the Cascades. Good news is that it’s suppose to calm down the rest of the weekend.

More recent video that is....even more insane.