Fire Season in the States

A news article headline caught my attention this morning. Fires are burning up California again this summer. Seems like California burns every summer. A person would begin to think that soon there would be nothing left in California to burn.

Down toward the bottom of the article, a fire in Colorado was mentioned. 20,000 acres burned and 0% containment at the time the article was written, southeastern Colorado. Hmmm. I had to look that one up.

One thing led to another this morning as I sit here drinking my coffee, waking up to face the rest of the day. I soon found myself on the WFAS - Wildland Fire Assessment System page. Interesting graphics on this page! (I love to look at pictures. :):) My favorite part of the library, when I worked at the West Custer Country Library District library, was the kids section. Kids get all the fun books.)

We have often told people about how dry it is in Colorado and how humid it seems to us here in Kherson. The perception of how dry/how wet it is really does depend on what you are used to. Melinda is from Florida - she thinks it's really dry here. We are from Colorado - we think it's really humid here.

Imagine my non-surprise when I found that most of Colorado yesterday had less than 20% humidity, and close to half had less than than 15% humidity. And there were strong winds whipping the fire along at an alarming rate.