Red Flag Warnings, April 14, 2016

Wildland fire danger 4-14-2016

The National Weather service has posted Red Flag Warnings for areas in South Dakota, Minnesota, and Colorado. The yellow areas in New Mexico and Arizona on the map below are for elevated fire danger on Friday afternoon and evening, where forecasters expect strong winds and humidities in the lower teens.

wildfire Red Flag Warnings 4-14-2016

The maps were current as of 10:15 a.m. MDT on Thursday. Red Flag Warnings can change throughout the day as the National Weather Service offices around the country update and revise their forecasts and maps. For the most current data visit this NWS site.

Red Flag Warnings, April 9, 2016

wildland fire red flag warnings

The National Weather service has posted Red Flag Warnings for areas in North Dakota, Virginia, North Carolina, Georgia, and Florida. Four states miraculously avoided Red Flag weather — Montana, South Dakota, Alabama, and South Carolina –according to the forecasts provided by the NWS.

In addition to the Red Flag Warnings, portions of North Carolina and Virginia have freeze warnings in effect for Saturday night.

wildland fire danger

The maps were current as of 10 a.m. MDT on Saturday. Red Flag Warnings can change throughout the day as the National Weather Service offices around the country update and revise their forecasts and maps. For the most current data visit this NWS site.

Red Flag Warnings, April 7, 2016

wildfire Red Flag Warnings 4-7-2016

The National Weather service has posted Red Flag Warnings for several areas in the central United States.

wildfire danger weather  4-7-2016

The maps were current as of 10:45 a.m. MDT on Thursday. Red Flag Warnings can change throughout the day as the National Weather Service offices around the country update and revise their forecasts and maps. For the most current data visit this NWS site.

Red Flag Warnings, April 6, 2016

The National Weather service has posted Red Flag Warnings for several areas in the central United States.

The map below shows a Red Flag Warning for north-central Nebraska, however the written weather forecast for that area only includes a Hazardous Weather Outlook for strong winds and low humidities.

Red Flag Warnings 4-6-2016

The maps were current as of 8 a.m. MDT on Wednesday. Red Flag Warnings can change throughout the day as the National Weather Service offices around the country update and revise their forecasts and maps. For the most current data visit this NWS site.

Red Flag Warnings, March 28, 2016

wildfire Red Flag Warnings 3-28-2016

The National Weather Service has issued Red Flag Warnings or Fire Weather Watches for areas in Colorado, Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona. On the map above, the red areas are Warnings, while the yellow represents a Watch.

Fire weather forecast 3-28-2016

The maps were current as of 9:05 a.m. MDT on Monday. Red Flag Warnings can change throughout the day as the National Weather Service offices around the country update and revise their forecasts and maps. For the most current data visit this NWS site.

Prediction for winds gusting to 50 mph raise Red Flag Warnings in New Mexico

The National Weather Service has issued Red Flag Warnings for areas in New Mexico and western Texas. The forecast calls for strong winds Saturday afternoon gusting up to 50 mph with relative humidities in the low teens or single digits.

The predicted red flag conditions mysteriously stop at the eastern and northern New Mexico border and don’t occur in Texas, Oklahoma, or Colorado except further south in the part of west Texas that is south of New Mexico. The same thing occurs to a lesser extent in southwest New Mexico where the red flag warnings in New Mexico are not in the forecast for Arizona across the imaginary line between the states. Examples of this phenomenon are tagged “red flag borders” on Wildfire Today.

The map was current as of 9:25 a.m. MDT on Saturday. Red Flag Warnings can change throughout the day as the National Weather Service offices around the country update and revise their forecasts and maps. For the most current data visit this NWS site.