[Elecraft] California Fires

[George Thornton]

I don't live in California but I have driven all through the area.

Elecraft is located near the coast north of Monterrey and south of Santa Cruz.  This is as I recall very roughly 50-100 miles south of San Francisco and a couple hundred miles north of Los Angeles.

Most of the fires are either in the California wine country, which is north and east of San Francisco, or in southern California, near Los Angeles.

Watsonville is itself located in a valley and there is probably relatively little vegetation in Watsonville itself to fuel a fire.

This area involves the beginning of a climate transition zone.  Southern California can get very dry along the coast.   This area is high risk for fires.

The north/central California coast is heavily influenced by cool, moist marine air.  The forests in this area tend to be relatively wet and fires are more rare.  For example, in San Francisco, temperatures can be 20 or more degrees cooler than in Oakland across the bay and dense evening fog is common.

As you go north in California into Oregon and Washington, where I live, forests on the coast get wetter and denser.   Forest fires in the coastal areas are extremely rare and unusual.  Conditions are almost always too cool and wet.

In central/northern California, Washington and Oregon fires tend to happen in the drier, inland areas.

From: elecraft-bounces at mailman.qth.net [mailto:elecraft-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Steven Stuckey
Sent: Tuesday, October 10, 2017 9:46 AM
To: Elecraft at mailman.qth.net
Subject: [Elecraft] California Fires

I hope all of the Elecraft personnel are safe from the fires. I am not sure
where the southernCalifornia fires are in relation to the factory.

73
Steven Stuckey - AC9GK - Indiana
Sent via phone.
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