Just got off the phone with a real, live — and informed — CDF person. He reports that the brunt of the fight on the Horse Fire is now on its western flank (closest to us), and that so far the firefighters there have managed to keep it all east of Lyons Valley Road, and south of Japatul Road. That’s great news for us!
Not so great news for us: the weather service is forecasting that the winds today will be toward the southwest, but light (definitely NOT a Santa Ana condition!). This would have the fire tending in our direction, with the uphill slopes it would first run into heading straight toward us.
We’re hoping those firefighters continue to prevail, and keep that horse’s ass of a fire over on the other side of the road!
The most recent MODIS data is now 12 hours old, so almost irrelevant. The next pass of a MODIS satellite is Terra, which will fly over in about 90 minutes, about 800 miles to the east. It’s just over 400 miles high, so that will give it a very oblique view (about 25 degrees). Assuming its sensors see that wide a path (I’m not sure about this), then it should have a great view of the eastern flanks of Gaskill and Lawson Peaks…
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