Guess where Western States

[easyrider]

 

[Luanne]

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I feel like I should know this. It looks like parts of New Mexico, and probably a lot of states in the southwest.

 

[DaveNV]

The picture's filename confirmed what I was thinking. I agree with @Luanne, it looks like a lot of the southwest, but it's not.

Dave

 

[T_R_Oglodyte]

My initial thought was Badlands, but this is supposed to be Western States. At TUG, the Dakotas are part of Central States.

 

[dago]

My initial thought was Badlands, but this is supposed to be Western States. At TUG, the Dakotas are part of Central States.

My initial thought also

 

[Luanne]

My initial thought was Badlands, but this is supposed to be Western States. At TUG, the Dakotas are part of Central States.

There are also the Bisti Badlands in New Mexico. I posted a picture there awhile ago.

 

[T_R_Oglodyte]

There are also the Bisti Badlands in New Mexico. I posted a picture there awhile ago.

Of course. There are badlands in other western states as well. Badlands will often form where there is over-grazing of grassland by herded animals. But the pic posted appears to Dakota Badlands.

 

[DaveNV]

I saw this today on Facebook. It's a real picture from a real western state location. Anybody know where this is?

Dave

 

[Luanne]

I saw this today on Facebook. It's a real picture from a real western state location. Anybody know where this is?

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Dave

I saw this picture as well, but I can't remember for sure. Was it Catalina?

 

[DaveNV]

I saw this picture as well, but I can't remember for sure. Was it Catalina?

Yes. Bison are coming down to the beach because the people are gone.

Dave

 

[easyrider]

My initial thought was Badlands, but this is supposed to be Western States. At TUG, the Dakotas are part of Central States.

It is the Badlands. I forgot that this was east of the Rockies. This area seems to have a western vibe to me but I agree that it is more of a Central State.

Bill

 

[T_R_Oglodyte]

It is the Badlands. I forgot that this was east of the Rockies. This area seems to have a western vibe to me but I agree that it is more of a Central State.

Bill

Understand. The western portions of the Dakotas loses the prairie feeling, and seems more akin to the mountain states.

 

[easyrider]

This is my water fall.

 

[Krteczech]

This place was closed till yesterday 5/26/20

 

[T_R_Oglodyte]

If you have to beware of this crab, where are you?

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This crab is at the ferry terminal on Orcas Island, in the San Juan Islands of Washington.

 

[T_R_Oglodyte]

9 a.m. today. The bulildings are less than one-half mile away.

 

[Karen G]

9 a.m. today. The bulildings are less than one-half mile away.

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Wow! Is this in Bellevue?

 

[T_R_Oglodyte]

Wow! Is this in Bellevue?

Yep - downtown Bellevue from the parking lot at the central Bellevue Trader Joe's store. Smoke from the wildfires. TJ's is just east of I-405 and the buildings are on the west side of I-405.

The bridge in the middle of the photo is for the rail line being built from Seattle to Redmond.

 

[controller1]

Yep - downtown Bellevue from the parking lot at the central Bellevue Trader Joe's store. Smoke from the wildfires. TJ's is just east of I-405 and the buildings are on the west side of I-405.

The bridge in the middle of the photo is for the rail line being built from Seattle to Redmond.

That's bad.

 

[T_R_Oglodyte]

That's bad.

Yeah - noon yesterday it felt like early sunset in late June, where the twilight lingers as the sun sets slowly and everything has a rose hue. Except that it's the middle of the day and the rose hue is in the air all around you - not just in the sky.

 

[sue1947]

And the air quality has improved. It's currently down to 192 (unhealthy). I'm not too far away and have a sensor about a quarter mile from me. On Friday, it spiked up to 330 (hazardous) and then settled back down to 240 (very unhealthy) for most of the day. The east winds that caused most of the fires blew the smoke out over the ocean. Now the air is back to the normal westerly flow and all that smoke is blowing back in.

 

[easyrider]

It really is smoky outside in Central WA. We were in Oregon yesterday and the smoke was very thick. A breeze began lifting the smoke off the ground into the air. Visibility from Goldendale to La Pine was not too good. A lightning strike wildfire near Mt Jefferson about 10 days ago is the reason for much of the smoke in this area.

Guess where.

 

[T_R_Oglodyte]

And the air quality has improved. It's currently down to 192 (unhealthy). I'm not too far away and have a sensor about a quarter mile from me. On Friday, it spiked up to 330 (hazardous) and then settled back down to 240 (very unhealthy) for most of the day. The east winds that caused most of the fires blew the smoke out over the ocean. Now the air is back to the normal westerly flow and all that smoke is blowing back in.

The Wilburton PM monitor is about four blocks away, due east. Circled in green on the map.

When I took the picture, the monitor was reading 130 µg/cu mtr of fine particulate (the vertical yellow line). That is actually down significantly from the peak reading of about 200 µg/cu mtr at 1:00 pm the day before (the yellow circle).

So imagine it being not quite, but almost, twice as thick as shown in the photo.

At TJs they had turned off the automatic opening doors at the store. Instead an employee was opening and closing the door for customers, to minimize the amount of smoke getting into the store.

Very TJs of them. I finished my shopping at Safeway, where it was normal (for the times) procedures.

 

[chellej]

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Ours is at 493 today. Supposed to get some rain tomorrow that should help.

We were driving home from Yellowstone yesterday and had a beautiful clear sunny day until we hit the Idaho/ Montana border. It started getting really bad as we went over lookout pass.

We are just staying in with windows shut. The last time it was this bad was 2015.

 

[easyrider]

I thought I could taste the smoke today. It's bad.

Bill