National Fire News

An active weather pattern is forecast across the northwestern US the next week, with a long-lived atmospheric river affecting Oregon through central California today through early next week. Heavy rain will fall in western Oregon to central California, with heavy snow in the mountains above 5,000 to 7,000 feet. Moderate to heavy precipitation will also spread across the northern half of the Intermountain West, with heavy snow in the mountains. The storm will shift south into southern California into the southern Great Basin with moderate precipitation late next week, while precipitation becomes scattered and lighter in the northern half of the West. A storm will move from the Appalachians today to off the East Coast tomorrow with widespread precipitation, heaviest in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast, and falling as snow in northern New England. A drier pattern is forecast across the eastern US early next week, with another round of precipitation likely late next week from the Mississippi River to the East Coast, with snow likely to be limited to the Upper Great Lakes. Near to below normal temperatures are likely to continue for much of central and eastern Alaska into next week under an upper- level ridge, while periods of precipitation and near to above normal temperatures affect the western coast. A Kona low will push east of Hawai’i today with showers continuing for the Big Island, followed by dry conditions with breezy trade winds this weekend into early next week.