National Fire News

Breezy and dry conditions are likely on the southern High Plains from eastern New Mexico into the Texas and Oklahoma Panhandles today through Monday. Elevated fire weather conditions are most likely across eastern New Mexico where fuels are driest. Breezy and dry conditions are also likely behind an Arctic cold front in southern New England and the Mid-Atlantic, with well below normal temperatures and dangerously cold wind chills. A surface low will bring showers and thunderstorms to portions of the northern and eastern Florida Peninsula today, otherwise much of Florida will remain dry through next week. An active pattern will return to the West Coast into the Intermountain West today and continue into next week. Periods of rain, with snow above 3,000 to 6,000 feet will occur across northern California, the Northwest, Great Basin, and Rockies. Light to moderate precipitation will occur with each storm and storms arriving every two to three days. However, much of southern California and Arizona will remain dry. A stronger storm is forecast to develop mid to late next week across the southern Plains, with precipitation likely from central and eastern New Mexico through the central and southern Plains into the Lower and Mid-Mississippi Valley. Periods of light mixed precipitation are likely in the Great Lakes into the Northeast next week as well. However, much of central Montana into the northern Plains will remain dry.