FNUS55 KPSR 281153 FWFPSR FIRE WEATHER PLANNING FORECAST FOR SOUTHWEST AND SOUTH-CENTRAL ARIZONA AND SOUTHEAST CALIFORNIA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PHOENIX AZ 453 AM MST WED OCT 28 2009 ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 11 AM MST/11 AM PDT THIS MORNING TO 5 PM MST/5 PM PDT THIS AFTERNOON FOR SOUTHEAST CALIFORNIA AND SOUTHWEST ARIZONA DUE TO STRONG WINDS...LOW RH VALUES AND A HIGH FIRE DANGER... .DISCUSSION... BREEZY TO WINDY CONDITIONS WILL CONTINUE TODAY IN THE WAKE OF A VERY STRONG LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM. RELATIVE HUMIDITY VALUES WILL DROP INTO THE LOWER TEENS THIS AFTERNOON...WHICH COMBINED WITH THE WINDS WILL POSE A FIRE DANGER ESPECIALLY ACROSS SOUTHEAST CALIFORNIA AND SOUTHWEST ARIZONA. WINDS WILL DECREASE LATER TONIGHT AND INTO THURSDAY THOUGH THE LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY VALUES WILL REMAIN. TEMPERATURES WILL BE WELL BELOW NORMAL THROUGH THURSDAY.
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Wednesday, October 28, 2009
National Fire Weather, red flag warnings in SE CA & SW AZ
With the fall Santa Anna wind season underway in southern California, and knowing that the area had been under red flag warnings in recent days, I was curious to find one national fire weather page where I could go and see fire weather watches and red flag warnings for the entire country. I found the National Fire Weather page, and have bookmarked it. In today's map (the map you see will be differ depending on that day's fire weather) there is a red flag warning for portions of southeastern California and southwestern Arizona:
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