Tornado Alley (PROG)

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DD .. i gather you see John Muir as going 'too far' .. here is an article by one for the John Muir Project .. http://www.johnmuirproject.org/news-unconscionable-exploitation.html .. would appreciate your comment on it ..

Here is another on the Rim Fire .. some 5 hours ago ..

With Rim Fire Near, A Look at Yosemite’s History With Fire
Yosemite is safe for now, but the Rim Fire is moving steadily closer.

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2013/08/130826-california-yosemite-national-park-rim-fire-wildfires-history-science/

it says 7% of the fire is under control whereas i read some 15% is contained now .. oh .. here it is at CalFire .. http://cdfdata.fire.ca.gov/incidents/incidents_current

.. this is the third comment of the National Geographic article above ..

The link below will always display the most recent perimeter of the Rim Fire and current hot spots straight from the GeoMAC server. This is the same server that also provides data to the crews on the fire line. Sometimes the data on the InciWeb site is not as current as the data that comes from the GeoMAC server. (The InciWeb site gets its data from GeoMAC.)

The map also shows wind speed and direction. Note that the wind data is always 3 hours old.

For more information regarding this map, you can follow the “About” link in the upper left corner of the map.

http://www.mappingsupport.com/p/fires/2013_rim_fire_map.html

Joseph, the Gmap4 guy

.. thanks for correcting the incorrect 'factnot' of the Guardian article back a bit .. i didn't check ..