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116      <h3>Playground - Full Now Available</h3>
117      <div class="row">
118        <div class="col-md-12">
119           <p><strong>September 23, 2024</strong></p>
120           <p>We are pleased to announce that <strong>BlueSky Playground - Full</strong>
121              is now available.  The Full version of our ad-hoc, on-demand smoke modelling
122              tool uses comprehensive fuel data to calculate emission rates, and includes an
123              expert mode to allow users to customize individual parameters.  You can access
124              Playground - Full from the <a href="/playground">Playground page</a>.</p>
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128      <h3>New Playground Available</h3>
129      <div class="row">
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131           <p><strong>July 3, 2024</strong></p>
132           <p>We are pleased to announce that a new, improved version of BlueSky Playground
133              is now available. Playground is an ad-hoc, on-demand smoke modelling tool which
134              allows users to create emissions scenarios for prescribed burns and wildfires,
135              then model the resulting smoke dispersion. You can access Playground - Express
136              from the <a href="/playground">Playground page</a>; more advanced versions are
137              under development.</p>
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141      <h3>Planned Maintenance Outage</h3>
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144           <p><strong>June 19, 2024</strong></p>
145           <p>A maintenance outage is planned for <strong>Thursday, June 20, 18:00-23:59 PDT
146              (UTC-7)</strong>
146 to upgrade network infrastructure in the data centre.  Access to
147              firesmoke.ca may be interrupted during this time.</p>
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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>
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161      <h3>French Translation</h3>
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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>
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171      <h3>Service Outage</h3>
172      <div class="row">
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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>
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181      <h3>Forecast Issue</h3>
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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>
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193      <h3>Forecast Access Clarification</h3>
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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>
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203      <h3>SmartFire Service Notice</h3>
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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>
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213      <h3>No Fires To Process</h3>
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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>
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224      <h3>Service Interruption</h3>
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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>
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235      <h3>Forecast Map Improvements</h3>
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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>
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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>
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268
269      <h3>Video Tutorials</h3>
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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>
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280      <h3>New Smoke Forecasts</h3>
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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>
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302      <h3>New Fire Weather Forecasts</h3>
303      <div class="row">
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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>
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326      <h3>Service Interruption</h3>
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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>
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336      <h3>HTTPS Available</h3>
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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>
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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>
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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>
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