FreeLists / az-observing / [AZ-Observing] Re: Cherry

["Stanley A. Gorodenski" <stan_gorodenski@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I observed the same thing yesterday. I had to make a trip to the land 
fill and passed the Cherry site. However, that is not the situation 
where I am. The skies were, and are, good. If one is traveling along 
with the smoke trail, which was going in an north or north easterly 
direction, one might well have to travel all the way to Flagstaff to get 
out of it. I also stopped at the Cherry site to see if the fires 
themselves could be seen from the site (They cannot because the site is 
in a slight depression) and observed, as Wes guessed, that it is dry as 
a tinderbox.
Stan


>  Wes wrote:
>
>On the trip to Flag and back, I could see Cherry Road is not a good 
>option.  Heavy smoke on the southern horizon to 15-20 degrees, and then 
>haze above that.  Things didn't improve noticeably until just out of 
>Flagstaff.  I ran into Dave Frederickson at Lowell Observatory and he 
>agreed that Cherry can be ruled out.  Besides, it's probably dry as a 
>tinderbox.  We saw the firefighters finishing up a fire that broke out 
>today near Carefree.
>We saw lots of helicopters, lots of smoke, and we saw the line of flames 
>on the hills near Black Canyon City this evening.  I've never seen 
>anything like it.
>Wes
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