One more day of critical fire weather in Northwest Oklahoma, relief on the way, see this Facebook Poat from the National Weather Service Norman Oklahoma for more information.
There is a nice short video from KTLU, Channel 8 in Tulsa OK, that KTLU posted on their Facebook page.
For some imagery from GOES-East showing smoke from the Oklahoma Wildfires see this short video from the satellite liaison blog
Updates on the Rhea (283,095 acres burned with only 3% containment) and the 34 Complex Fires (67,778 acres burned at 45% containment. The Oklahoma Forestry Services (OFS) posted updates on this OFS Facebook post and they also posted an update on the Rhea Fire on a second OFS Facebook post
Last but by no means least, the 34 Complex Fire has a NWS Incident Meteorologist. Watch IMET David Shallenberger share about being an IMET on this OFS Facebook post
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