Updated: 4:27 p.m. PDT October 22, 2019
Elevated wildfire danger is in the forecast for portions of northern and southern California on Wednesday, Thursday, and in southern California, into Friday. Most of the Fire Weather Watch areas have been upgraded to Red Flag Warnings.
The extreme fire danger in northern California will begin Thursday while the southern California areas will start on Friday.
North or northeast winds at 15 to 20 mph gusting at 30 to 40 with relative humidities in the teens are predicted for the areas identified on the map in northern California. The areas in the south should receive 25 to 35 mph winds out of the north or northeast gusting at 50 to 60 with single digit humidity.
This weekend could bring another period of dry and windy conditions.
(Red Flag Warnings can be modified throughout the day as NWS offices around the country update and revise their weather forecasts.)
After winds decrease this morning, another round of offshore winds is expected Thursday and Friday. This will be a stronger event with wind gusts of 60 mph possible. It will be extremely hot and dry with highs near 100 and min RH as low as 3%. Now is the time to prepare!
— SAWTi Forecast (@sawti_forecast) October 22, 2019
Due to upcoming wind events and drying fuels, we have changed our fire danger level to EXTREME, which means no building, maintaining, attending or using a fire, campfire, or stove fire in all of the national forest. https://t.co/hChH3MQe1Y pic.twitter.com/JKBaM5Lnon
— Angeles_NF (@Angeles_NF) October 21, 2019
In spite of the Red Flag Warning and another pending PG&E shutdown the Lassen NF lit off a 300 acre prescribed burn today. I can’t imagine any possible resource benefit that could justify the risk.
https://krcrtv.com/news/butte-county/prescribed-burn-sends-up-smoke-plume-over-butte-county