Lookout Useful Links: Delilah

Delilah Lookout
(36.8041141, -119.1187255) 

Below are some of the useful links Gary has found in connection to being a volunteer fire lookout at Delilah:

• Listening In
• 1000 - Weather and Staffing
• Fire Weather-looks like we can access direct. If not, look below under Weather
  
• Staffing  - Morning (1000) staffing report. You will need the password to access this report. See the BRF email of 8/23/23 for it.
• 1600 - Indices and Weather
• Indices - Evening (1600) indices report. You will need the password to access this report. See the BRF email of 8/23/23 for it.
• Fire Weather-looks like we can access direct. If not, look below under Weather
  

• Weather
• Fire Weather:All ECCDA Calif Fire Weather. 
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  In May 2023, NOAA changed how fire weather was accessed. Steps to getting to fire weather:
• Click on the link above
• Wait until the California map resolves with the boundary lines.
• Look directly east of Fresno. Hover over the ECCDA: 22 Ash Mountain.
• Click that one.
• Fire Weather for the lookouts should appear.
• All ECCDA Calif Fire Weather. Fire Weather - Usually is updated by 0700. Chose section ECCDA: 22 east of Fresno
•  NOAA Weather Station (data): Delilah (NR6G-12) Utah's MesoWest
•  APRS (Station Information): Delilah (NR6G-12) May not be active due to lack of WiFi (5/1/2021)
• NWS Point Forecast based upon Delilah's Lat/Long
  
• Lightning Map
• from WeatherBug (Centered on Delilah)
• From EarthWorks - Needs a sign on
  
• Go to the Sferic Map
• You will need to sign onto the user
• Check the map for the Delilah area.
• Convection Forecast-that is lightning, from today and two days out.
   
• National Weather Service
• Forecasts
• PG&E Weather Stations
   
• Fire Weather Cloud Chart PMS438  (pdf)
• Relative Humidity Chart for 5,000-9,100'-caution the wet bulb is the difference between dry and wet reading. (web page)
• Relative Fuel Moisture Chart (web page)
• Probability of Ignition (web page) 
•  Sequoia National Forest
•  WildCAD-E  Includes information on incidents and resources.(Sequoia NF only)
• Old WildCAD  
• CCICC (Central California Interagency Command Center) web links 
• Staffing  - Morning (1000) staffing report. You will need the password to acccess this report. See the BRF email of 8/23/23 for it.
• Indices - Evening (1600) indices report. You will need the password to acccess this report. See the BRF email of 8/23/23 for it.
•  Sierra National
• WildCAD-E   Includes information on incidents and resources. (Sierra NF only)

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• Old WildCAD  

Kings Canyon and Sequoia National Parks

 WildCAD-E - Includes information on incidents and resources. (SEKI only)

• Old WildCAD

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Fire Information

•  InciWeb USA - Presents a map of the US where you can drill down. Look for the fire icons
• CalFire Current Incidents
• NIFC
• Southern California Geographic Coordination Center - Lots of interesting stuff, concerning the area which CCICC belongs to.
• Predictive Service Area (PSA) Charts and USFS Year-Around Stations Charts - has ERC and BI information, but I cannot translate into what Porterville
• Outlooks - has several dumps fo ERC and BI information, along with predictions. But not 435 and 438.
• National Preparadiness Levels:
• Actual
• Other
• Yosemite
• Yosemite Fire and Aviation Facebook page
• California Fire Tracker - The San Francisco Chronicle maintains an interactive map of current and past fires.
• #FireMapper - ArcGIS Firemapping of hot spots. You will need to move around the map to where you want to see. (Version 3.1)
  
• CalTopo Fire Map-use Delilah Lat/Long(36.8041141, -119.1187255) and click on Fire History or Fire Activity 
• Capital Radio Fire History Map - more oriented towards how fires have changed over the decades.
• NWS Fire Danger Indices for the San Joaquin Valley area. Does not include 435 or 438, but areas close to us.
• Large Forest Service Fires-Historical documents-an FTP Site
• General
• Northern California Fires
• Southern California Fires
• Federal Wildfire Incidences-CalFire (ftp)
  
• Incident Response  Pocket Guide - PMS461, April 2018  (pdf)

Delilah Lookout Information

• Buck Rock Foundation  
• Topo Map of the area (Google Drive, pdf, 556MB)  (Caution: Very, very large)
• Azimuth from Delilah (Google Drive, xlxs, 324kb)   (Caution: spreadsheet has  4,500 lines)

Air Quality

• Pinhurst Air Quality - Real Time Monitoring 
• Grant Grove Air Quality - Real Time Monitoring
• Purple Air -graphical map of air quality
  
•  Air Now
• AirNow - Smoke Report - From Delilah Lookout
• Blue Sky Smoke - both current and short term projection patterns
  

Misc

• GNIS (Geographical Names Information System from USGS)
• Forest Service Topo Maps - specialized USGS maps with Forest Service References
  
• WildCAD - Master list of WildCAD sites 
• Mesowest from Utah Sensors for California-change sensors to All Networks-also near our locality
  
• MesoWest-Grant Grove
• MesoWest-Buck Rock
• MesoWest-Park Ridge
  
• MesoWest-Big Meadows
• MesoWest-Beartrap Meadow
• MesoWest-Millwood Road South of 180
• MesoWest-Sontag Point/Hang Glider
  
• MesoWest-Lodgepole Campground 
• MesoWest-Giant Forest
• MesoWest-Cedar Grove
  
• Sunset/Sunrise times, along with night sky and other like information
  
• AirCraft Information - Flight Radar 24 -Centered on Delilah
• Wildfire Intel Discussion Forum for California 
• Alert Wild Fire - List of PG&E and other private webcams
• GOES-West Satellite  Image Viewer. Good for smokes
  
• California Smoke Report
  
• NWCG Publications 
• Basic Land Navigation PMS475 
• Fire Behavior PMS437 
• Fireline Behavior Appendix B-Fire Behavior PMS410-2
• Understanding National Fire Danger Rating System PMS932

Glossaries:

• National Forest Service Glossary of Fire Terminology 
• National Wildfire Coordinating Group (NWCG) Glossary 
•  National Fire Danger Rating System (NFDRS) Common Terms
  

National Museum of Forest Service History
 

Web Cam Views

Delilah 1

Delilah 2 - rotating

ALERTCalifornia webcams for cameras in our area.

For more lookout information, go to my General Lookout Page:



View from Delilah Lookout, as generated by PeakFinder.org 


From HeyWhatsThat.com, views captured from Google Earth showing what can be seen from Delilah Lookout.The red shading is what is visible from Delilah.

Delilah to the NorthEast

Delilah to the NorthWest

Delilah to the SouthEast

Delilah to the SouthWest