Australia burns

Brodie Allen · Guru

Australia burns

Plain Truth · Guru

Where?

Are We Lost · Guru

All the orange icons are active fires. The size of the icon represents larger and smaller fires. Mouse over an icon and it shows Megawatts and the area in square kilometres.

Windy.com is a great free site with numerous overlays of information. Pay for Premium and get more.

Plain Truth · Guru

Are We Lost wrote:
All the orange icons are active fires. The size of the icon represents larger and smaller fires. Mouse over an icon and it shows Megawatts and the area in square kilometres.

Windy.com is a great free site with numerous overlays of information. Pay for Premium and get more.

the orange icons are temp.

blackstump · Veteran Member

Plain Truth wrote:
Are We Lost wrote:
All the orange icons are active fires. The size of the icon represents larger and smaller fires. Mouse over an icon and it shows Megawatts and the area in square kilometres.

Windy.com is a great free site with numerous overlays of information. Pay for Premium and get more.
the orange icons are temp.

Agree Plain truth, according to the Qld gov fire service there is currently only one active fire in Qld that warrants any warning and that's just a smoke warning.

Plain Truth · Guru

blackstump wrote:
Plain Truth wrote:
Are We Lost wrote:
All the orange icons are active fires. The size of the icon represents larger and smaller fires. Mouse over an icon and it shows Megawatts and the area in square kilometres.

Windy.com is a great free site with numerous overlays of information. Pay for Premium and get more.
the orange icons are temp.
Agree Plain truth, according to the Qld gov fire service there is currently only one active fire in Qld that warrants any warning and that's just a smoke warning.

The problem is we either have ,Left Wing Looneys or Right Wing Agitators stuffing up a good forum .

Plain Truth · Guru

Here is Windy today at 9PM

Are We Lost · Guru

Active Fires toggled on

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Active Fires toggled off

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Perhaps many of the fires shown are controlled burns. I have not checked the specifics of what gets included and reported as an Active Fire but assume it is satellite detections.

From the QLD Fire Dept site, here is QLD Permitted burn map. The same site separately shows 13 active bushfires.

-- Edited by Are We Lost on Sunday 24th of November 2024 12:21:18 AM

blackstump · Veteran Member

Are we lost
Your map of permitted fires means nothing, my place is actually on there at the moment.
A fire burn that requires a permit is a stack consisting of anything more than 2 cubic metres (not very big)
I burnt 3 large heaps 10-15 cubic metres each last week and will light around 25-30 acres of grass probably tonight which is something i need to do bi-annually BUT I can hardly see how they warrants OPs dramatic headline "Australia burns" its just part of owning a property larger than a shoebox, so that Australia DOESNT burn, it's called bush fire management and every Australian property owner should do it. The only fires the general public need to be concerned about are the ones that the fire service issues a warning for, in Qld for instance this morning, there are NONE the one from yesterday has been cancelled.

Are We Lost · Guru

blackstump wrote:
..... I can hardly see how they warrants OPs dramatic headline "Australia burns" ....

My response to that post was specifically about the usefulness of the Windy site. It displays many different pieces of information. In the case of the Active Fires, mouse over the icon for a satellite image of the area.

I have no comment on whether some would find this useful or not.

-- Edited by Are We Lost on Sunday 24th of November 2024 09:52:12 AM

Gundog · Guru

Just for the record there was a fire burning in the Great Dividing Range West of Proserpine for about a week, which was monitored without and physical interaction.

Alas we have also had may fires also burning around various locations to the north and south of us, sugar cane burn offs are spectacular only for few minutes.

Brodie Allen · Guru

For the pundits, the dots are fires seen from the satellites - if you zoom in you will see the circular
sensing areas for each hotspot that gives an idea of size.

Plain Truth - Looks as if you haven't toggled on "Active Fires" down in the sub menu. I get hundreds this am.

Interesting to look around the world - especially Sub Sahara Africa. Lots of cooking fires there!

In some overlays for storms, etc., lightning flashes add to the scene !

Brodie

-- Edited by Brodie Allen on Tuesday 26th of November 2024 08:11:38 AM

-- Edited by Brodie Allen on Tuesday 26th of November 2024 08:15:37 AM

Brodie Allen · Guru

Plain Truth wrote:
blackstump wrote:
Plain Truth wrote:
Are We Lost wrote:
All the orange icons are active fires. The size of the icon represents larger and smaller fires. Mouse over an icon and it shows Megawatts and the area in square kilometres.

Windy.com is a great free site with numerous overlays of information. Pay for Premium and get more.
the orange icons are temp.
Agree Plain truth, according to the Qld gov fire service there is currently only one active fire in Qld that warrants any warning and that's just a smoke warning.
The problem is we either have ,Left Wing Looneys or Right Wing Agitators stuffing up a good forum .

The usefulness of the app for campers is obviously (to some) to keep a watch on fire areas and

either avoid or monitor before setting up camp!

Additionally, it escapes my why fires that are endemic in sugar cane areas are not criticised for their

smoke and carbon emissions.

Personally I dont have a problem with the burning and all the carbon claptrap, but I still wonder

why there isn't any protest about it.

Brodie

-- Edited by Brodie Allen on Saturday 30th of November 2024 05:05:38 PM

Greg 1 · Guru

Use the app Bushfire IO. Much better to track active fires and alerts Shows you wind direction and speed, hot areas, immediate danger and future danger zones ahead of the fire. You can track the aircraft attacking the fire and what they are. Uses government warnings and updates. I have used it for years as we live in a bushfire prone area.