National Fire News

Lightning activity is expected to trend downward across much of the West as compared to Monday with mainly isolated mixed wet/dry thunderstorms favoring southwest Montana into central Idaho and northwest Wyoming, as well as the eastern Great Basin into the Southwest. It will also be warmer-than-normal in the West, and extreme heat will dominate in southeast California, central/southern Arizona and parts of New Mexico where lower-elevation highs will approach record values of 100°F to 115°F as the monsoon wanes. Expect locally breezy westerly winds along the eastern slopes of the southern Cascades into southeast Oregon and the Sierra Front with generally light winds elsewhere in the West. A slow-moving moist front backing in from the east will boost wetting thunderstorm coverage for Colorado (east of the Divide) and northeast New Mexico. Ahead of the cold front, abnormally hot conditions, gusty southerly winds, and single-digit to low-double-digit RH persists from Texas into southern Oklahoma and Arkansas. Isolated thunderstorms will be found in the Lower Mississippi Valley with better wetting rain chances in southern Georgia and Florida. Alaska's eastern Interior stays cool and showery, as does much of the Ohio Valley and Northeast, while trade winds weaken in Hawai'i under more stable conditions.