The National Weather service has developed an excellent site for monitoring the near-real time weather conditions in the Los Angeles area, and how those observations from weather stations “flirt with” or meet the criteria for Red Flag conditions. It is a very useful site, refreshing automatically every five minutes. It includes the following parameters: RH, wind speed, gusts, duration for meeting the Red Flag criteria, fuel moisture, temperature, and elevation.
When you visit the site, hovering your mouse pointer over a station brings up the last 12 observations at that station.
Other areas in the country should develop similar sites. If you are aware of more, let us know in the comments below.
