National Fire News

Breezy and dry northerly winds will create elevated conditions across most of the Plains today, while strong easterly winds are expected across central and eastern New Mexico. A cold front will move through the Appalachians, Mid-Atlantic, and Northeast, but precipitation will be light and mostly in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast. Breezy southwest winds will develop ahead of the front and create elevated conditions across the Piedmont. Hot temperatures will continue west of the Divide in the Southwest, as well. After the cold front moves through tonight, very dry air will spread across much of the South, Appalachians, and East Coast with minimum relative humidity of 8-25% Saturday. Breezy north to northeast winds will also develop across much of the Lower Mississippi Valley and Southeast creating elevated to critical conditions. The very dry air will persist into Sunday, but winds will be lighter. To the west across the Plains, breezy and dry southerly return flow is expected to create areas of elevated conditions over the weekend. Temperatures will warm across the West once again this weekend, but not to the extreme levels seen earlier this month. In addition, limited moisture will move into the Southwest Sunday, with isolated to scattered mixed wet and dry thunderstorms expected which may result in many new ignitions. Below normal temperatures and dry conditions will continue across Alaska, while breezy trade winds today across Hawai’i become locally strong over the weekend.