California Declares State of Emergency!

I just saw the news on KRON4’s web site and was thinking about you. Hope you’re safe and have fresh air.

We've had a great week, strangely warm for August, nice, sunny, ripe blueberries, ripe raspberries, lot of mushrooms. Today we're having lots of rain, thunder, lightning, and then we'll be back to the good weather a couple of days. I think it's because school has started. The weather is always good when school starts

I have experienced a miniature fire tornado when burning rubbish in the garden once. Even on a small scale, it was very scary. Fortunately, we were able to douse the fire successfully - or at least, calm it down so that it produced thick clouds of white smoke to infuriate the neighbours - with grass cuttings. The weather here is building up for a watered down version of the storm which is currently approaching the west and north of the country. Today has been mostly wet and my brother-in-law and his partner visited us for lunch. Fortunately, we had rigged up what calls itself an 'Event Shelter', so we were able to practice social distancing in the proper manner. English summers normally consist of a day or two of sun interspersed with a week or so of damp and chilly.

I hope it's not close, but I am sure you can feel the heat

Goodness so sorry its bad there. My sister and her family live in Dixen California and they've been taking in some people that had to leave their homes from the fires.

My weather is "sunny, hot, smog, don't go out between 10:00 and 4:00 unless necessary. Drink lots of water and get your salt intake" weather. At least that's how the Japanese weather announcers put it.

It must be terrible for people living right there

It was raining the 19th, 20th and drizzling on the 21st. Some lightning but none close to us. It's been cooler than normal the last few days. We were getting temps in the high 70s during the day and are getting low 60s at night.

Been hearing about the fires. The weather is great here.

@thehorse Ireland is bracing itself for a battering from storm Kyle. Heavy rain, high winds. Nothing new.

The temps have cooled to only mid 90s now but its for sure fire weather at my house. Very dry with some gusty winds.

Please stay safe. It doesn't take much to spark a disaster. I've only seen fire tornados on tv, never in person

I hope you are safe where you live at. The weather here is sunny with a nice breeze and not hot at all.

I saw the news story. Sunshine here, maybe a rain shower later every day this week.

It has been nice and sunny here but now all dried out and need a bit of rain. With two tropical storms in the Gulf of Mexico, I'm sure we will be seeing some liquid stuff early next week.

It's cloudy around here these days which is good since it's not very warm anymore. I hop that the fires like that will soon stop.

We heard on the news that there had been a huge number of fires started by lightning strikes. I hope it won't impact on you.

Thinking about you. Stay safe. Our weather has been really nice. 76 today; but then we will warm up again next week. Have a wonderful Thursday.

As if it wasn't enough with a pandemic, a wildfire emerges!