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Boston Globe
4 hours ago
- Climate
- Boston Globe
N.H. officials brace for drought amid wildfire, drinking water concerns
The fire in Weare comes as abnormally dry conditions have engulfed the entire state, with experts bracing for drought to spread in the coming days and weeks. The dry conditions have already sparked Get N.H. Morning Report A weekday newsletter delivering the N.H. news you need to know right to your inbox. Enter Email Sign Up Firefighters battled back a brush fire in Weare, N.H., that was first spotted on Monday. Courtesy of Trevor Anderson, Weare Fire Rescue Advertisement 'The reason for the high fire danger, really throughout the state, is the abnormally dry conditions,' said Chief Steven Sherman of the Forest Protection Bureau at the New Hampshire Department of Natural and Cultural Resources. Given relatively wet summers in 2023 and 2024, the state hasn't endured significant drought conditions since But Sherman said this year, the state has been running a rain deficit since the beginning of June. 'When that happens our grasses, our leaves, the dead and down branches and logs on the forest floor just become really dry, and that increases the fire danger,' he said. Those conditions allow fires like the one in Weare to spread more quickly and burn more deeply. Advertisement Trevor Anderson, the assistant fire chief at Weare Fire Rescue, said firefighters were still working on Wednesday to put a brush fire. Courtesy of Trevor Anderson, Weare Fire Rescue Alerts from the New Hampshire Forest Rangers indicate that fire danger has been considered 'high' in recent days, with at least one day last week qualifying as a 'very high' risk. The fire danger is evaluated on whether it is low, moderate, high, very high, or extreme. The predicted When burning is permitted, visit For your town's FDRA, click here: — NHForestRangers (@NHForestRangers) Given the high risk, most fire departments around the state are not granting people permits to burn anything outside, Sherman said. In a typical year, forest fires burn about 250 acres of land in New Hampshire, with most fires ranging from about 1 to 10 acres in size. Fires were tracking below average thanks to the wet spring weather, but so far August has been a busy month, bumping the state's total up to 111 acres burned, according to Sherman. 'If we continue on this trajectory, we could exceed our yearly average, even with that wet spring,' he said. And, he said, forecasts indicate that drought conditions are likely to worsen and spread in the coming weeks. Federal agencies compile a weekly drought report called the US Drought Monitor. Last week, it found that there were 'abnormally dry' conditions blanketing the entire state. Conditions were even worse in about 12 percent of the state qualifying as being in a 'moderate drought,' including parts of the Seacoast and along the state's eastern border with Maine. But just a week earlier, about 70 percent of the state had no sign of dryness or drought, a prior installment of the same report found. 'What's really happened over the last month has been a pretty rapid period of drying, with extremely high temperatures and precipitation well below normal,' said Ted Diers, assistant director of the water division at New Hampshire Department of Environmental Services. Advertisement 'When that happens, we enter what they like to call a flash drought,' he said. He said multiple streams have reached record low levels for a particular day, particularly in the state's North Country and Seacoast region. And Diers said the groundwater levels are also dropping to very low levels. Parts of the North Country are about 3 inches below the normal rainfall for this time of year, according to the department's data. In June, that area had been about 4 inches above the average. 'That's pretty astounding,' Diers said, of the 7-inch loss of accumulated precipitation. He said the department's primary concern is drinking water, with drought limiting water availability. Diers said the department is aware of many community water systems around the state that have implemented bans on outdoor watering as a conservation measure. Dry streams also raise concerns about wildlife surviving with less water. 'At the top of our minds are making sure that people have enough water to drink and that wildlife can survive some of these dry periods,' he said. Amanda Gokee can be reached at
Yahoo
13-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
‘Billboard Unfiltered': Reviewing Lil Wayne's ‘Tha Carter VI' & His All-Time Ranking in Rap
Billboard Unfiltered is back with a reimagined format and will remain a live show every Wednesday at 12:30 p.m. ET. Staff writer Kyle Denis, senior director R&B/hip-hop Carl Lamarre and senior charts analyst Trevor Anderson returned with new moderator Delisa Shannon on Wednesday (June 11) as the trio debated the early returns of Lil Wayne's Tha Carter VI, and all three skewed to various degrees of a negative reception to Weezy's latest installment in his decorated series. More from Billboard Former Evanescence Guitarist, Jen Majura, Announces Decision to 'Step Away' From Music Industry Douglas McCarthy, Nitzer Ebb Vocalist, Dies Aged 58 Ananda Lewis, Influential MTV Host, Dies at 52 Lamarre compared Wayne's career legacy to that of Lakers legend Kobe Bryant and said Weezy still remains in his top five of all-time. Although, CL believes that the disappointing album and his solo output over the last decade have watered down his discography. 'I need to fire whoever was A&R and executive producing my brother Wayne's album because this is easily the worst [Carter] in the entire series,' he claimed. '[C6] was just a full trainwreck… When you take out the mixtapes and look at pure albums. From one, five and six on Tha Carter is mid — everything else is mid.' Denis bluntly said C6 is 'not a good album at all' and 'a—.' 'He spent the last year begging for sympathy by him not getting the Super Bowl slot and he deserved that,' he said. 'This was the time to drop a fire album, get one or two hits off of that, and make your actual case for a Super Bowl headlining show next year. That's completely shot now because it's a—… You did not rise to the occasion.' Anderson seemed to enjoy the album most among the Unfiltered crew, highlighting the first six tracks as standouts before being derailed. 'I'm not gonna be that hard on it,' TA began. 'Clearly, it's the weakest entry in the canon… It didn't stick the landing for me… I don't know if this album really messes up [if Wayne is top five or top 10] for me… It does weaken Tha Carter series overall… But I don't think it messes up the legacy peg at all.' The conversation turned to Wayne's legacy and Lamarre believes every top 10 rapper should have at least three classic solo offerings, and he thinks Wayne has two with the second and third installments of Tha Carter, but not much else. 'I'm adamant about saying his [albums] discography is not as strong as people think,' he declared. Ultimately, the trio wants to see Wayne get back to the drawing board and lock in with a singular producer like Nas did with Hit-Boy to bring that greatness out of him. When the dust settled, Shannon gave Trevor Anderson the victory in the first game of the revamped Unfiltered series. Watch the full episode below. Best of Billboard Chart Rewind: In 1989, New Kids on the Block Were 'Hangin' Tough' at No. 1 Janet Jackson's Biggest Billboard Hot 100 Hits H.E.R. & Chris Brown 'Come Through' to No. 1 on Adult R&B Airplay Chart
