Outlook for Spring Wildfires Affecting Road Trips

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It is incredibly dry in Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Michigan. After this week, nearly all ground snow is gone, and if there is no significant precip going into spring, winter-stressed dog-hair-thick balsam fir trees will be free-standing kindling for any new starts. The conditions that made Canada so busy last year is setting up in the Northwoods...Half the Boundary Waters will likely be burning in May, and Hotshot crews will be canoeing over beaver dams to set up pump shows in the wilderness as scoopers buzz them overhead.

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From The Hotshot Wake Up briefing report.

California and the PNW are getting plenty of rain now. Although snow pack is running lower than expected in Colorado and the mountain west.

And Canada is going to have a bunch more fires -- there are reports of 21 wildfires burning today in BC. Some under the snow.

Going to be a smoky spring and early summer.