What Is The Weather Today II (No Mercury Jockeying)

[Marty_Mcfly]

Another forest fire started last night in the CBN region, their third of the year, which grew quite a bit overnight, leading to evacuations of several towns out that way.

Meanwhile another fire popped up this afternoon just outside Holyrood, which is a part of the St. John's CMA, which has caused a partial evacuation of the town. Smoke from that fire is currently over St. John's, and an air quality advisory has been issued.

Neither fire has been helped by the dry conditions; forest fire risk across the entire province is between "HIGH" and "EXTREME" right now, and today's heat and extremely low humidity, along with persistent wind, is the worst case scenario for fires.

There will be a slight break in the heat tomorrow, as winds shift northeasterly and temperatures drop to the mid-teens. This should give crews a chance to put dents in these fires. However, it will be extremely short lived, as the long-range forecast is predicting the hottest temperatures of the summer, along with gusty winds and very low humidity to set in Wednesday through mid-next week. If these fires aren't extinguished by Wednesday AM then conditions will not be favourable for fighting them for quite a long time.

[MonkeyRonin]

Saw this on CBC today. It's been a rough summer out there: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toron...ment-1.7600871

[Nicko999]

24C with a humidex of 27 and hazy. There might have been cloud cover earlier in the afternoon so it wouldn't have been a fully sunny day but bad air quality once again and another day where that takes 2-3 degrees off our temperature.
Sickening. And then people complain about humidity?

Low of 17C this morning.

The warmspot was Kamloops, BC at 32.8C.

Warmest low was Western Island, ON at 20.2C

[flar]

Originally Posted by whatnext

I thought those had to come indoors everywhere in Canada for the winter?

Rose mallow is a type of hibiscus native to SW Ontario, found in marshes. Rose of Sharon is also a type of hibiscus, non-native but very common and even invasive in Southern Ontario

Swamp rose mallow in Rondeau Bay

[SignalHillHiker]

The fires in Conception Bay North and Holyrood are still growing, with more evacuations overnight. The winds should shift the fires back the way they came later today.

Our office in Seal Cove (part of Conception Bay South) is pre-emptively closed.

[1ajs]

yikes


18c this morning here 86% humidity

suppost to be 26 today hot and muggy.

currently traped in my community by fies the pr391 is blocked by 100 miles of fires another community along it is evacuaiting now nelson house

and im on day 3 of power being out they still havent been able to get look and see the damage due to smoke witch has also shut down fire fighting effots and a nighboring community at the sask boarder had a fire storm charging at it around 4am been trying to contact friends if theyre ok

these fires are so insane

[flar]

Humid weather has returned, looks like very consistent temps the next couple weeks.

[MonctonRad]

21C and sunny in Moncton at noontime, going up to 24C this afternoon.

The seven day forecast shows extremely stable weather with daytime highs in the 28-29C range and wall-to-wall sunshine. Not a single drop of rainfall in the forecast.

Fire hazard in the province is now extreme.

[Marty_Mcfly]

Currently sunny and 23 at just after 1:30pm. Likely near the highs of the day, winds are expected to turn northeasterly this afternoon which will drop temperatures down around 15.

Holyrood/CBS fire hasn't grown much since it started late yesterday afternoon, so hopefully the cooler temperatures and wind-reversal will really help crews get it under control. Winds won't be super strong tomorrow either so that may help, though it is expected to be hot tomorrow, with temps increasing in the subsequent days.

CBN fire is completely out of control, tripling in size overnight. Even todays wind reversal won't help much there.

[kwoldtimer]

Originally Posted by Marty_Mcfly

Currently sunny and 23 at just after 1:30pm. Likely near the highs of the day, winds are expected to turn northeasterly this afternoon which will drop temperatures down around 15.

Holyrood/CBS fire hasn't grown much since it started late yesterday afternoon, so hopefully the cooler temperatures and wind-reversal will really help crews get it under control. Winds won't be super strong tomorrow either so that may help, though it is expected to be hot tomorrow, with temps increasing in the subsequent days.

CBN fire is completely out of control, tripling in size overnight. Even todays wind reversal won't help much there.

How many kilometres from St John's?

[SignalHillHiker]

Originally Posted by kwoldtimer

How many kilometres from St John's?

Not that close, and Conception Bay is between us.

[whatnext]

Originally Posted by flar

Rose mallow is a type of hibiscus native to SW Ontario, found in marshes. Rose of Sharon is also a type of hibiscus, non-native but very common and even invasive in Southern Ontario

Swamp rose mallow in Rondeau Bay

So the pic SHH posted is just a rose mallow rather than true hibiscus?

I've got a couple Rose of Sharon plants and they're great, I just wish someone could breed one that keeps its flowers longer.

[SignalHillHiker]

Rose mallow is a type of hibiscus, I think. Might be just marketing:

https://www.provenwinners.com/learn/...nners-hibiscus

[TownGuy]

Hot and sunny. Perfect conditions for a lazy river float.









When you're done, walk back and do it all over again.

[Nicko999]

25C (humidex of 26) and sunny. There was an improvement today. The sun was actually noticeable and not hidden behind the smokey sky. Still not perfect air quality but compared to the previous 2 days, it's decent.





Low of 14C this morning. Looking forward to the more humid heat coming up.

The warmspot was Kamloops, BC at 32.6C.

Warmest low was Toronto (City Centre), ON at 21.1C.

[megadude]

Originally Posted by Kilgore Trout

I've had some pretty delightful swims at Kits and English Bay and I'm not a fan of cold water.

By comparison the outdoor public pool near me is 24 or less most of the summer. Mysteriously cold compared to other pools. Maybe something to do with the local ground conditions?

My daughter shivers in the shallow lake in the middle of the summer. I took her for swimming lessons at Goldfish Swim School because it says the water is 90 degrees. She shivered there too. Good thing the first lesson is a trial. I dipped my hand in there and I have no idea how water temp is measured because it was colder than what you think 90 should be, but it wasn't as cold as regular pool. The city pools are 84 degrees.

[megadude]

Originally Posted by TownGuy

Nice day. A rare one in that its warm without much humidity. 27 with a matching humidex of 27.

Google Lens tells me this a Green Heron.

Blue herons are a dime a dozen. Beautiful bird and majestic flight. Awful sound though. Green herons are much less frequent sight. I've seen maybe three or four. This one was from when I was fishing in Caledon 15 years ago. It itself was fishing. It was looking down at minnows. I remember David Attenborough narrating about a bird dropping things in the water to lure minnows up and then plucking them out of the water. So I threw little pieces of my sandwich to this bird and sure enough he used the crumbs as bait and was plucking out the minnows.

[SignalHillHiker]

The Holyrood fire has been held back, but the CBN one is still out of control, and the largest new one is in the Grand Falls-Windsor region.

[SignalHillHiker]

Gonna be a hot one. Hurry up, bus.

[Marty_Mcfly]

Sunny, with some haze/smoke and 18 at 9:30am. Highs near 25 expected today, but with low winds I'd imagine St. John's will probably be in the low 20s while inland areas are warmer.

The 7-day forecast from EC is unlike anything I've ever seen before. Straight wall-to-wall sun, and temperatures between 25 and 28. I believe this is what the mainlanders call "summer". Unfortunately it's come at the worst possible time.