ellarien | We had to burn the forest to save it ... (Reply)

Lots of smoke on Mt Wilson today, particularly in the afternoon; the long-awaited controlled burn finally went ahead. (What they did last night was just preliminaries, apparently.) Details on the director's fireblog and at the Inciweb, which is currently showcasing children's letters to the firefighters. (Class project or something more spontaneous, I'm not sure which.)

I've been capturing the image from the Towercam every five minutes since Monday. Currently I'm geeking out a bit over the amount of information that can be deduced simply by considering the size of the JPEG files as a time series. Considering the destruction (and the loss of two lives) caused by this fire, I feel a little uncomfortable about this, but looking for patterns in data is what I do ...