And Fires during Fire Season In a 50-mile radius in Northern California (see map below)
Indian Root Plants above are bulbs | photo ©2023 by F. K. Ontario
I began talking/listening to bulb plants in the winter of 1988. My girlfriend/lover gave me a potted plant of Chinese Chives (CC) a bulb plant. I put the plant outside close to the house but far enough away from the two donkeys staked in the backyard. It was a chilly, fog-soaked day in February when I asked the CC about the weather for the rest of the winter into the summer. Impressions reached me and “told” me to expect a rainy winter, and a hot summer until August. August would have many coastal fog-bound days with brief clearing in the late afternoon from 3 to 5 p.m. when we could expect a return of the fog cover. October of ’88 would be a hot Indian Summer of over 100 degree-heat for stretches of 4 to 5 days followed by a cooling coastal period.
When I moved to the mountains of Glen Ellen California the Chinese Chives (CC) escaped the pot and formed a small lawn outside my picture window (with a sixty-mile western view). Ten years later when I moved back into the valley I transplanted some of the CCs into a pot. They did not like valley life and passed away.
When I moved to a house in 2003 they were a corralled group of bulb flowers. They began “talking” to me right away. They told me about the weather for the upcoming year in February. They also gave me information about the pandemic and about fire season. For many years I did not know their name until I found a plant recognition app that informed me they were called Indian Root bulbs.
Indian Root Bulb Plants
Indian Root Flower | ©2023 by F. K. Ontario
Indian Root Forecast/Weather & Fires: 9/23 to 8/24
Rains mild to heavy by the end of October. Sporadically heavy rains in November, December, January ’24, and the first half of February ’24. March light rains. April and May drought conditions take hold with hotter-than-average weather. Fire danger is higher in eastern Sonoma County, Napa, Lake, Solano, and southern Mendocino Counties. Southwestern Marin Counties will be high fire risk in May and early June.
Weather will return to the pattern of 5 days of morning coastal fog burning off by noon to 1 p.m. The cycle of coastal cooling will be followed by 3 to 4 days of hotter weather with some days breaking 100 degrees F. In other words, the weather pattern will mirror the pattern of this year.
This forecast is good in a 50 to 60 mile radius – see the map below:
The red circle indicates the radius where the forecast is valid courtesy of Google Maps ©2023
Other Fire Safety Measures
There have been more controlled burns by private and public land management groups. Fire departments and firefighters have better equipment and faster response times. This makes for better fire prevention. PG&E and other utility companies have begun setting up grids to shut power off during high winds and other fire hazard conditions. Utilities are burying electrical cables in high-fire-risk areas.
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