smast16
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I hope i don't sound like an idiot, but what would be natural causes? I get lightning, but there hasn't been any.
Stay safe man!
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Stay safe man!
I was wondering same thing
No big surprise here and now D2 showing up, going to get ugly real fast unfortunately
Static electricity a simple spark and a little wind with dry conditions.
smast16
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I didn't know that was possible. Thanks!
Interesting but teach me something, how can static electricity occur in a remote location of a forest? Genuinely curious
LickWx
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Deer rubbing their hooves against the forest floor and the charge travels through their antlers . That’s my theory !
Wow we don’t drought often at all anymore hopefully this will be quite short lived 
I was thinking a skunk, fox or chipmunk rubbing against a tree trunk, their tails are hair brush like so that's my theory
LickWx
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While our droughts aren’t typically severe , we are one of the most drought prone areas in the nation, specially north ga/ upstate sc / clt area . Not sure why , wonder if down-sloping and a rain shadow affect of sorts is to blame .
Severe drought issued for entire Charlotte metro. Moderate drought into Wilkes co. Thursday drought map update
Since this is starting to dominate the December thread and continues to worsen for many locations figured we'd fire it up (no pun intended)
NoSnowATL
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Well after a few wet years it was a matter of time we drought. Mommy weather sure does like to level things out.
Spontaneous combustion in leaves look it up rare but possible.
I'm not doubting you and I'm actually aware of spontaneous combustion, generally speaking there has to be moisture and compression (think piles of mulch or bales of hay, etc) so that seems unlikely in a very dry area no? But I guess there could still be some deep areas of leaves that have enough moisture and compression to reach those temps, it's happened in the swamplands of ENC before. I'm guessing poachers and they either had a fire they didn't completely extinguish or threw down a cig butt
9 out of ten is human caused and it is deer season.
There are power lines in the area too but u sound like u got this down pat. I'm leaning deer hunters though and a lil update fire has beoke containment three times but has died down a lil this morning.
My last theory, squirrel got fried in the transformer, sparks hit that dry brush and boom
Good stuff lol
Not great from the gefs
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Upper south/SE drought cancel 
As long as we get some rain out of it. Even a little will help
Shaggy
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What a turnaround from the major rains of the summer for us in Eastern NCNo big surprise here and now D2 showing up, going to get ugly real fast unfortunately
smast16
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It's not entirely surprising. At our latitude, between 30 and 40 deg there are a lot of the world's deserts and scrub lands. I'm thinking sink zone from Hadley cells of the ITCZ and mid-latitude cell.
Almost at 80% containment things are starting to look better. We started a burn yesterday along Marlowe rd hoping hoping to burn all the fuel on the forest floor before the fire got there I believe its working
Kinda odd all the rain dried up and high winds started but no special weather statement or anything for fire danger? I see humidity is higher but still
NCSNOW
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0.00 Another continous dry frontal passage. Can't remember the last time it rained here, thats how long its been. Course my memory aint what it use to be eitheir.
SouthSideYankee
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Per Brad. P. This is crazy!
smast16
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If it was Summer and we went 6+ weeks with less than a 0.25" of rain we'd be straight D3 Red.
Ward Cleaver
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You’re right. This has been a trend since April. I had a couple of good rains in July and August that dug us out of a hole a little bit, but it’s been dry all spring and fall. I‘m on day 27 with nothing more than a trace.
Shaggy
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Pgv is still around 9 inches ahead of normal and we got about an inch yesterday. Ponds and creeks are way down the last 3 to 4 weeks
Here we go
Yup public officials are sleeping again on the fire threat. Multiple wildfires breaking out across many counties today with high wind. Now they are being called in on Christmas Day. NWS and or state officials really dropped the ball on wind advisories and fire danger statements for the holiday weekend and now it’s TOO LATE playing catch up.
Up to 250 acres now helicopters ? being called in. Grandfather
10% contained and over 350 acres. Some fire fighters refused to come in Christmas Day
Big thanks to the drought monitor folks for placing the short term drought S right over me.
.6 last night nearly 3 for December. At least for mby this month hasn't made things worse but for much of NC it's another negative month. You can't recover continuing to go negative. We need 3-4 months of 4-5-6 inch totals state wide to start seeing decent improvement at this point or one of those 10 inch months.
Hope we can get a secondary low Sunday the main concective band will probably be .5-.75 generally state wide but filling the precip in on the cold side would probably double that.
.6 last night nearly 3 for December. At least for mby this month hasn't made things worse but for much of NC it's another negative month. You can't recover continuing to go negative. We need 3-4 months of 4-5-6 inch totals state wide to start seeing decent improvement at this point or one of those 10 inch months.
Hope we can get a secondary low Sunday the main concective band will probably be .5-.75 generally state wide but filling the precip in on the cold side would probably double that.
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Yesterday was the first time in a long time I've played golf in Dec-march and the greens were hard and the course wasn't muddy. Just hit 2/3 irons off the tee and let them roll out down the fairway. I was really shocked to see how low water levels were on the way to the course.