skillamonth

8282 pts · December 28, 2020


I am a student. I commit to learning something new everyday, and a skill every month. I have a disability that slows how I can communicate, but doesn’t limit my voice nor the fire beneath it. I love life and knowledge more than you can hate. I use a custom AAC to communicate, and rely on AI to help me write faster, and to check my grammar and structure.

https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov they publish daily!

1 month ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

That would be the Taiga burning- it’s 14x more potent per hectare than a fire in the U.S.; mainly due to permafrost and high carbon soil.

1 month ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

That’s part of the Taiga, the largest forest on earth; two things you should know about that.
- 3/4 of forest smoke comes from the ground, and the Taiga the largest forest on earth.
- This section of the Taiga burning has the highest concentration of carbon in soil on earth.

1 month ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

A few years ago I got to meet some folks in the Washington Wildland Fire team - they had an incredible 18 year old girl flying a chinook for them, amazing pilot.

1 month ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Yes, you can see the outlines of foundations within the water as well as an occasional relic in the debris. I figured it could be fun to metal detect here. Unfortunately, Colorado has one of the most restrictive metal detecting policies in the nation.

1 month ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

There’s a former town in the middle, by which the drought has exposed. However the beach and bottom unfortunately, is covered in about 1cm of fine black ash.

1 month ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 0

You are correct - it has lost 30ft of water in the last 20 days mainly due to discharges downstream and extreme, persistent drought.

1 month ago | Likes 51 Dislikes 1

Your support means a lot!

1 month ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

My family is poor by even American standards. Everything here is time. The land is relatively cheap, what is not is the time to craft from the land something like this. Everything is made from hand and from the land; excpet the iron this comes from Sweden; but I hope we can be forgiven for not collevting this ourselves

4 months ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 0

We are not wealthy, we are lucky. The land has been in the family for generations and we’ve built the hall for ourselves and to provide a means for funds. It is a venue but also a home. Everything comes from the lands and the only expense is time and what we’ve earned with it.

4 months ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

“I must get the sheep and dog off the roof” is more likely

4 months ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Yes

4 months ago | Likes 15 Dislikes 1

As have 2/3 of weather forecasting data sources, and formerly free federal data API’s. I created the above site to replace these things in a better format, and better accuracy.

4 months ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

It is!

4 months ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 1

It is northern slang, frozen stiff/frost bite; it doesn’t always translate well; closest I can give is: Warmth is a good friend when you’re frozen stiff

4 months ago | Likes 11 Dislikes 1

A man from this old house visited but not this man, he had mustache

4 months ago | Likes 12 Dislikes 1

My aunt has, she did a board for the movie SLO Walter Mitty, but it was not used for the movie.

4 months ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Yes for class

4 months ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

For example your region saw Snow amounts in excess of 150%, however a majority of this has disappeared, in a period shorter than ever recorded (3 months earlier)

4 months ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

This is a combination of two effects; the millennium problems of climate science.

The spring paradox, and the warm snow drought effect. The best way to look at your area is as an anecdote.

High precipitate in your area is a story, but a single page, the area (lat/long) tells another story. In your area specifically, area nearby have melted faster and earlier than ever before, leading to high precipitation counts in some regions; especially mid-season, that lead to negligible recovery.

4 months ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Yes - each Snow station typically has other sensors, however as of Jan 2026 the only consistently updated source for this is my site (daily). The federal reporting and forecasts are now monthly, and only available via API and not a public format.

4 months ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

This was an error on my part, my model is only set as default to fire period, Nov-Jan is not considered part of this. I have updated the scale on my graph and now reflect this.

The reason I did this initially is that ENSO fluctuations during Nov-Jan have a very very small relationship to storm/fire seasons predictions in the corridor of study. I have since updated this. However, my model only really considers the periods post Jan, when SWE begins to depreciate.

4 months ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Leading to water allocation based on a facade, fire forecasts that are too conservative, and fire equipment being deployed to the wrong areas.

4 months ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 0

Yes and no, some areas had huge spikes in precipitation. This is actually a tricky metric to consider - and is a wonderful subject and problem I’m currently investigating called the spring paradox.

California for instance had huge spikes in precip at the same stations I now see are at their 117 year low.

Why? The snow turns to rain and the reporting is the same for precipitation.

The worst part is that water provisions (how water is divided in the state) were decided at that moment.

4 months ago | Likes 11 Dislikes 0

Auto-corrected my own site title, edited!

4 months ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

I’m disabled you prick.

4 months ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I also learned to write in primary school, now I cannot. Again, I invite you to use the tool I primarily use to communicate so that you can understand why I’ve used AI as a writing assistant.

4 months ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 2

I use it for grammar, and typing. Download what I normally use (Weave Chat) and use it to type something - I invite you.

The facts are based on my own research and publicly available data sources. My about page has the listed information.

4 months ago | Likes 0 Dislikes 1

I created this myself, as a free public resource (part of my school work at this moment, but I hope to build it into something more) I will have the raw data files available for download (I figured out how to add files and a download button) for this specific story on the About shortly. Right now I’ve only managed to compile where I’ve pulled these sources onto the about.

4 months ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0