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Fire Weather Outlook Discussion
Issued by NWS
Issued by NWS
452 FNUS22 KWNS 160635 FWDDY2 Day 2 Fire Weather Outlook NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK 0134 AM CDT Tue Jul 16 2024 Valid 171200Z - 181200Z ...Synopsis... Dry thunderstorms will continue to pose a fire weather threat on Wednesday across parts of the Pacific Northwest and Great Basin. Monsoonal moisture continues to stream north into the northern Great Basin/Pacific Northwest, on the northwestern periphery of a Four Corners upper ridge per recent advected PWAT imagery. A weak upper-level impulse (evident in early-morning water-vapor imagery off the CA coast) will translate across the Pacific Northwest through the day Wednesday, providing sufficient lift for thunderstorm development. Deep boundary-layer mixing through roughly 3 km is anticipated across much of the Great Basin and Pacific Northwest. Such dry conditions will limit rainfall totals at the surface and support dry lightning potential. Recent fuel analyses and fire activity indicate that driest fuels are likely found across the Pacific Northwest where there has been negligible rainfall over the past 7 days. Further southeast into the Great Basin, pockets of wetting rainfall may have limited the spatial extent of viable fuels to some degree, but most locations have likely retained burnable fuels. Consequently, dry thunderstorms should pose a fire weather concern for both regions. ..Moore.. 07/16/2024 ...Please see www.spc.noaa.gov/fire for graphic product... $$