The counter-clockwise rotation of winds around Hurricane Ian has brought north winds and low humidity to portions of Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, and the panhandle of Florida. The combination of a strong surface high to the north and the strong pressure gradient around the hurricane will drive moderately strong northerly winds across much of the Southeast on Wednesday.
The forecast is for humidity in the teens and 20s with wind gusts of 20 to 35 mph Wednesday afternoon.
In the wind forecast above for 2 p.m. CDT Wednesday, Hurricane Ian is predicted to make landfall near Cape Coral, Florida.
The National Weather Service’s Red Flag Warning map was a little more conservative than the Storm Prediction Center’s designations of elevated and critical fire weather.
The Storm Prediction Center’s forecast for Thursday is for elevated fire weather only in southern Alabama and the Florida panhandle.
Hi Bill, Relative to wildfire fighting, do the managers look at (https://www.accuweather.com/en/us/salem/97301/weather-radar/330144) where by moving the map one can see the radar imagines of likely precipitation events that are occurring and predicted to occur in the next few hours? Have a good day, Jerry
Maybe common sense would dictate holding off on ANY RX burns no matter the USFS targets are, until the WX is known in the next 24 hours…cuz like aviation, when one isn’t paying attention to the WX…itreal easy to get in over ones head as evidenced on NM Spring of 22!
Hi Wally, I appreciate your wisdom probably based upon experience. Bill, storm equals high winds and nothing else. Except some localized ‘claimates’ normally have ‘normal’ winds which in other climates would be considered to be storms. Both maps, wildfire danger and weather, have common locations. I focus attention on two quite different locations and their quite different climates. The corner of OR, ID, NV and New Orleans. And I ask: Do we really under the cause of WIND? I am sure many may explain that we do. But I still doubt.
Have a good day, Jerry