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146 to upgrade network infrastructure in the data centre. Access to 147 firesmoke.ca may be interrupted during this time.</p> 148 </div> 149 </div> 150 151 <h3>End Of Canadian Fire Season</h3> 152 <div class="row"> 153 <div class="col-md-12"> 154 <p><strong>November 1, 2023</strong></p> 155 <p>We are now only publishing one smoke forecast per day now that the Canadian fire season 156 is over (March 1 - October 31). This forecast is typically published around 15:00 UTC, 157 depending on the number of fires burning, met forecast availability, etc.</p> 158 </div> 159 </div> 160 161 <h3>French Translation</h3> 162 <div class="row"> 163 <div class="col-md-12"> 164 <p><strong>July 19, 2023</strong></p> 165 <p>We now have a French version of the website available. Look for the <strong>"Fr"</strong> 166 link in the navbar at the top of each page to switch to French, and the corresponding 167 <strong>"En"</strong> link to switch back to English.</p> 168 </div> 169 </div> 170 171 <h3>Service Outage</h3> 172 <div class="row"> 173 <div class="col-md-12"> 174 <p><strong>July 18, 2023</strong></p> 175 <p>Firesmoke.ca was down overnight July 16-17 due to a server outage. Smoke forecasts are now 176 available again, but they may not accurately depict initial smoke conditions until the smoke 177 modelling system has spun up the carryover smoke used to initialize each forecast.</p> 178 </div> 179 </div> 180 181 <h3>Forecast Issue</h3> 182 <div class="row"> 183 <div class="col-md-12"> 184 <p><strong>July 16, 2023</strong></p> 185 <p>Due to network issues this past weekend, smoke forecasts were produced with missing forecast 186 hours and/or missing carryover smoke to initialize the forecast with. As a result, the smoke 187 displayed on the current forecast did not accurately reflect the actual conditions. We have 188 implemented changes to fix the network issues and are monitoring the forecasts to ensure this 189 does not recur.</p> 190 </div> 191 </div> 192 193 <h3>Forecast Access Clarification</h3> 194 <div class="row"> 195 <div class="col-md-12"> 196 <p><strong>May 13, 2023</strong></p> 197 <p>Public access will continue for smoke forecasts, fire weather forecasts, and all other services 198 on FireSmoke Canada. The only service that will no longer be public is the SmartFire fire data 199 acquisition, reconciliation and GIS database. Sorry for the confusion.</p> 200 </div> 201 </div> 202 203 <h3>SmartFire Service Notice</h3> 204 <div class="row"> 205 <div class="col-md-12"> 206 <p><strong>April 19, 2023</strong></p> 207 <p>Public access to the SmartFire service will be discontinued April 30, 2023 for security 208 reasons. Please contact <a href="mailto:[email protected]?Subject=[BSC] SmartFire service"> 209 Roland Schigas</a> to discuss options if you rely on this service.</p> 210 </div> 211 </div> 212 213 <h3>No Fires To Process</h3> 214 <div class="row"> 215 <div class="col-md-12"> 216 <p><strong>January 18, 2023</strong></p> 217 <p>There are currently no active fires within our forecast domain, so the smoke forecast map 218 is fixed at the last available forecast that our modelling system produced on January 2, 219 2023. Daily operational forecasts will resume once fire activity picks up again for the 220 2023 season. <strong>Update: As of Feb 1, daily operational forecasts have resumed.</strong></p> 221 </div> 222 </div> 223 224 <h3>Service Interruption</h3> 225 <div class="row"> 226 <div class="col-md-12"> 227 <p><strong>July 15, 2022</strong></p> 228 <p>The firesmoke.ca website and services will not be available for much of Saturday, July 23, 2022. 229 Services such as Smoke Forecasts, Fire Weather Forecasts, SmartFire and Playground will be down 230 completely for a maintenance outage from 07:00-11:00 PDT, and these services may be down intermittently
231 for testing between 11:00-17:00 PDT. Thank you for your patience during this time.</p> 232 </div> 233 </div> 234 235 <h3>Forecast Map Improvements</h3> 236 <div class="row"> 237 <div class="col-md-8"> 238 <p><strong>September 1, 2021</strong></p> 239 <p>The following improvements and bug fixes have been made to the smoke forecast interactive viewer:</p> 240 <ul> 241 <li>The Information sidebar has been replaced with a hidden drawer to maximize the visible forecast 242 on small screens; click on the <strong><i class="fas fa-info-circle"></i></strong> control in the 243 top-right of the map to open the Information drawer.</li> 244 <li>The animation control layout has been optimized to maximize the visible forecast on small screens.</li> 245 <li>The datetime shown in the animation control is now <strong>Local</strong> time by default; click 246 on the datetime to switch to UTC.</li> 247 <li>URL parameters for latitude, longitude and zoom are now available, to allow users to load the forecast 248 map centered and zoomed on a specific area.</li> 249 <li>After panning and zooming the map, the forecast URL with parameters for the current latitude, 250 longitude and zoom are available in the <strong>Tools</strong> section of the Information drawer 251 for copying to the clipboard and bookmarking in your browser.</li> 252 <li>The bug which pushed the animation controls off the screen below the fold on iOS and Android devices 253 has been fixed.</li> 254 </ul> 255 </div> 256 <div class="col-md-4"> 257 <!-- TODO add screenshot --> 258 </div> 259 </div> 260 <div class="row"> 261 <div class="col-md-12"> 262 <p>Note: If the forecast map is not displaying correctly on your device, use <strong>Ctrl+F5</strong> 263 (PC) or <strong>Cmd+Shift+R</strong> (Mac) to force your browser to update your cache.</p> 264 <p>View the current smoke forecast at <a href="https://firesmoke.ca/forecasts/current/"> 265 firesmoke.ca/forecasts/current/</a>.</p> 266 </div> 267 </div> 268 269 <h3>Video Tutorials</h3> 270 <div class="row"> 271 <div class="col-md-12"> 272 <p><strong>July 22, 2021</strong></p> 273 <p>Four video tutorials are now available, covering interpretation of the smoke and fire weather 274 forecasts as well as using the Playground. These tutorials can be viewed on the WFRT 275 <a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLtOkkSuXfIKhLnCwKyV29JSS-xovQNmga">BlueSky Tutorials</a> 276 playlist.</p> 277 </div> 278 </div> 279 280 <h3>New Smoke Forecasts</h3> 281 <div class="row"> 282 <div class="col-md-12"> 283 <p><strong>March 31, 2021</strong></p> 284 <p>The four BlueSky Canada daily smoke forecasts have been upgraded with a larger domain, improved 285 meteorology, and are now being produced using the new BlueSky Pipeline (BSP) modelling framework.</p> 286 <ul> 287 <li>The larger domain extends farther north, south and west and will improve the forecast by 288 incorporating more emissions sources.</li> 289 <li>The new meteorology extends the high-resolution 12 km forecast grid over more of the domain, 290 and allows the use of nested 36 km meteorology instead of requiring interpolation during 291 dispersion modelling.</li> 292 <li>The new BSP framework improves emissions modelling and the integration of carryover smoke 293 from previous forecasts.</li> 294 <li>The BSP framework also positions BlueSky Canada to take advantage of new plume rise 295 research and model development currently underway to further improve smoke forecasts.</li> 296 </ul> 297 <p>View the current smoke forecast at <a href="https://firesmoke.ca/forecasts/current/"> 298 firesmoke.ca/forecasts/current/</a>.</p> 299 </div> 300 </div> 301 302 <h3>New Fire Weather Forecasts</h3> 303 <div class="row"> 304 <div class="col-md-12"> 305 <p><strong>March 31, 2021</strong></p> 306 <p>The beta BlueSky Canada <a href="https://firesmoke.ca/forecasts/fireweather/current/">Fire Weather Forecast (FWF) model</a> 307 is now operational and producing daily forecasts. The FWF is an impementation of the Fire Weather 308 Index (FWI) System using BlueSky Canada gridded metorological forecasts, providing high-resolution 309 spatial and temporal FWI forecast output for use in operational wildfire models and wildfire incident 310 command briefings.</p> 311 <ul> 312 <li>FWI fuel moisture codes and indices are calculated at up to 4 km grid resolution with a two day 313 forecast horizon.</li> 314 <li>Weather-sensitive moisture codes and indices are resolved at one-hour temporal resolution, 315 while less sensitive codes and indices are resolved once daily at noon local time.</li> 316 <li>The FWF is available as an interactive map with point forecast functionality and active model 317 comparison to observed meteorology and FWI values.</li> 318 </ul> 319 <p>View the current FWF forecast at <a href="https://firesmoke.ca/forecasts/fireweather/current/"> 320 firesmoke.ca/forecasts/fireweather/current/</a>.</p> 321 <p>More information about the FWF model is available at <a href="https://cerodell.github.io/fwf-docs/build/html/index.html"> 322 cerodell.github.io/fwf-docs/build/html/index.html</a>.</p> 323 </div> 324 </div> 325 326 <h3>Service Interruption</h3> 327 <div class="row"> 328 <div class="col-md-12"> 329 <p><strong>October 7, 2020</strong></p> 330 <p>There will be a firesmoke.ca service outage on Saturday, October 17, 2020 from 07:00 331 to 16:00 Pacific Time due to network maintenance. We recommend you load a smoke forecast 332 into your browser on Friday, October 16 if you need one during the interruption.</p> 333 </div> 334 </div> 335 336 <h3>HTTPS Available</h3> 337 <div class="row"> 338 <div class="col-md-12"> 339 <p><strong>April 1, 2020</strong></p> 340 <p>A secure, encrypted version of this website is now available at 341 <a href="https://firesmoke.ca/">https://firesmoke.ca/</a>. For legacy compatibility reasons, 342 the original unencrypted HTTP site will remain operational, and it will not be automatically 343 redirected to the HTTPS site.</p> 344 </div> 345 </div> 346 347 <h3>
347New Forecast Viewer</h3> 348 <div class="row"> 349 <div class="col-md-12"> 350 <p><strong>May 15, 2019</strong></p> 351 <p>A new and improved forecast viewer has been released. Improvements include new basemap layer choices, 352 better playback controls, a new fire outline overlay, new hotspots marking and clustering, an opacity 353 control for the smoke layer, and a sidebar with comprehensive forecast and help information. 354 Concurrently, we also simplified the forecast graphics to use six levels to make it easier to see transitions 355 and to make the PM<sub>2.5</sub> values relate to national exposure standards. 356 You can see the new viewer by visiting the <a href="/forecasts/current/">current smoke forecast</a>.</p> 357 </div> 358 </div> 359 360 <h3>New Forecast Colour Scheme</h3> 361 <div class="row"> 362 <div class="col-md-12"> 363 <p><strong>April 3, 2019</strong></p> 364 <p>We have switched to a YlOrBr (yellow orange brown) colour scheme to display the different levels of 365 PM2.5 on our smoke forecasts. This was done to improve accessibility for colour blind users and to 366 improve contrast between levels when viewed in grayscale. Here is the new forecast legend we are using:<br /> 367 <img src="/static/img/colorbar.png" alt="forecast legend" /></p> 368 </div> 369 </div> 370 371 <hr> 372 373 <footer> 374 <p>© BlueSky Canada 2021</p> 375 </footer> 376 377 </div> <!-- main container --> 378 379 <!-- Bootstrap requires jQuery --> 380
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