Jessica McCarty
@jmccartygeo.bsky.social
🔥🛰️🌱 Science, mainly. 🔵Nicer online than in-person. ⚪️Actual real-life Kentucky hillbilly, currently California resident. 🔴Personal account. I do not speak for my employer, all posts mine alone.
Dealing with suburban California parents (as a parent myself) never fails to remind me that I am not from this place, this suburban/middle class culture, & I don’t particularly care for it (even though it has some benefits). {Shouting into the void, hoping this doesn’t catch on}
Urban firestorms like the one that devastated Spokane Saturday have been growing more common because of increased development in the Wildland Urban Interface (WUI) and climate change. In this post, I document 9 such fires since 2016 in the U.S. yaleclimateconnections.org/2026/08/urba...
Urban firestorm devastates Spokane as dense smoke envelops the Northwest » Yale Climate Connections
Climate change, combined with development in high-risk areas, is making urban wildfires more likely.
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Northern Hemisphere #wildfires & long-range smoke transport between 1-31 July 2026 + 1 August 5-day forecast. Visualised with #CopernicusAtmosphere Fire Emissions Watch app apps.atmosphere.copernicus.eu/fire-emissio... @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social @ecmwf.int
As much as this is a water planet, our Earth is also a fire planet. Every continent (except Antarctica) has fire seasons. Climate change and mismanagement have made fire risk and fire danger worse. We can make it better, while still holding onto fire as a needed treatment for the land.
I-95 is closed in coastal Georgia due to a new wildfire in Camden County. It missed the rain today and blew out as multiple outflow boundaries passed through. South Georgia has seen a recent re-emergence of drought indicators due to the hot and dry July.
Looking through smoke from Canadian wildfires🔥 EarthCARE data reveal smoke plumes from fires near Fort Simpson, revealing their extent across the Northwest Territories. Read more🔗 earth.esa.int/eogateway/ga...
Little Fire currently at 950 acres (~380+ hectares), 10% containment. @calfire.bsky.social doing an amazing job! Red area shows a landscape barrier feom quarry/cement factory, reservoirs, & parks. Pleasanton had active Rx fires in Shadow Cliffs Rec Area this spring. www.fire.ca.gov/incidents/20...
The Canadian Interagency Forest Fire Centre (CIFFC) also shows that year-to-date the wildfires in Canada are near average and much less than extreme fire year 2023: ciffc.net/situation/20...
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Mark Parrington@mparrington.bsky.social · 3w agoUpdated analysis of 2026 Canada #wildfire emissions for 1-18 July showing > average estimated emissions with continuing large-scale fires in Northwest Territories & Ontario. #CopernicusAtmosphere GFAS data based on MODIS (+VIIRS in map)🛰️ active fire obs @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social @ecmwf.int
The history & current state of wildland firefighting in North America is one of cooperation - from Alaska to Mexico, Atlantic to Pacific. 🇺🇸 & 🇨🇦 & 🇲🇽 firefighters are often working together in each other’s countries. The landscapes, water, & air are shared across borders - just like the 🔥 & smoke.
#CopernicusAtmosphere aerosol depth forecast from 18 July 00z showing continuing transport of wildfire smoke across North America & Atlantic (+Saharan dust in W Mediterranean) for coming days atmosphere.copernicus.eu/charts/packa... @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social @ecmwf.int
The history & current state of wildland firefighting in North America is one of cooperation - from Alaska to Mexico, Atlantic to Pacific. 🇺🇸 & 🇨🇦 & 🇲🇽 firefighters are often working together in each other’s countries. The landscapes, water, & air are shared across borders - just like the 🔥 & smoke.
Great news despite the widespread lightning this morning. Fires in Minnesota and just across the border are picking up soaking rain. RAWS weather obs are missing nationally, but radar estimates are anywhere from a quarter inch to 2”+. Will help reduce smoke production for a bit.
Smoke from Canadian #wildfires affecting Great Lakes/NE US in recent days predicted to continue out to the N Atlantic in the #CopernicusAtmosphere aerosol optical depth forecast from 16 July 00z atmosphere.copernicus.eu/charts/packa... @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social @ecmwf.int
Near surface smoke forecast for the CONUS area. Model run: 20260716T13:00 UTC Data from NOAA's HRRR CONUS (https://rapidrefresh.noaa.gov/hrrr/) Note that this product comes with absolutely no guarantee of availability, accuracy or completeness. #Wildfires #Smoke #AirQuality
Fires in the boreal & Arctic regularly impact the mid latitudes - just as pollution from the temperate impacts the North. Chapter 4 of this Arctic Council working group report provides a recent deep dive: www.amap.no/documents/do...
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Jessica McCarty@jmccartygeo.bsky.social · 3w agoAs the Great Lakes & eastern seaboard experience ongoing smoke events from hundreds of actively burning Canadian wildfires, here are recent NASA and NOAA imagery showing smoke & fire locations. Smoke events will be likely to co-occur throughout the summer. Smoke, like 🔥, is a global issue.
As the Great Lakes & eastern seaboard experience ongoing smoke events from hundreds of actively burning Canadian wildfires, here are recent NASA and NOAA imagery showing smoke & fire locations. Smoke events will be likely to co-occur throughout the summer. Smoke, like 🔥, is a global issue.
Spent the morning in a creek with Gen Alpha and fossils from the Ordovician Period (505 to 438 million years ago).
Get ready for dark skies and extremely poor air quality in the Great Lakes and Northeast. Most of the smoke from the fires in Minnesota and Ontario is aloft this morning and circulating around the heat dome. That likely changes by Wednesday.
Early in my career I lived and worked in Ann Arbor. Two streets from my rental (not far from the Big House), there was a man who had written over every outward facing part of his dwelling his delusions, accusations, and hate. That’s what 1/3 of social media reminds me of now.
Analysis of 2026 Canada #wildfire emissions up to 9 July with the #CopernicusAtmosphere GFAS dataset shows more typical onset and magnitude following the previous three extreme years. Fires have been burning across the country from NWT to Newfoundland. @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social @ecmwf.int
Here’s to the boss lady in the Cincinnati airport eating a Skyline breakfast 3-way before 10 in the morning. Your stomach and spirit must be made of iron.
‘ “California burns. Every year. And it’s getting worse. The question isn’t if—it’s where and when,” the site [Wyldfyre] reads. It includes hotspot data from NASA and National Interagency Fire Center fire perimeters to help gamblers make predictions.’
WIRED@wired.com · last mo.Wildfire survivors call fire-prediction markets “morally reprehensible” and worry they could increase the risk of arson. www.wired.com/story/predic...
Portugal #wildfires & predicted surface #airquality impacts with enhanced ground-level PM2.5 concentrations for the Iberian Peninsula in the #CopernicusAtmosphere global 5-day forecast from 4 July @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social @ecmwf.int
Currently staying with family at a (farm)house that has 5 corgis. Pray for us as the seasonal 🎆 have begun.
Numerous fires in northern SK and MB, southern NWT and Nunavut generating enormous amounts of smoke. GOES - East geocolor loop below. #wildfires
I’m in eastern Kentucky for a family 4th of July and in a span of 2 minutes I moved an eastern box turtle off a road, then saw whitetail deer & a flock of wild turkeys. If the blackberries don’t cure in the heat dome, I’ll make blackberry dumplings tomorrow from the wild bushes. Lord, it’s hot 🥵.
A new study gives a timeline of beavers’ northward push into the Arctic. eos.org/articles/how...
How Beavers Gnawed Their Way into the Arctic - Eos
Historical data on beavers’ Arctic expansion are lacking, but tree rings are shedding light on the timeline.
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