Red Flag Warnings have been issued for areas in Oregon, California, and Montana.
The map was current as of 9:45 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. For the most current data visit this NWS site.
Red Flag Warnings and Fire Weather Watches have been issued for areas in Oregon, California, and Montana.
The map was current as of 12:15 p.m. MDT on Tuesday. Red Flag Warnings can change throughout the day as the National Weather Service offices around the country update and revise their forecasts. For the most current data visit this NWS site.
Red Flag Warnings have been issued for areas in Washington, Oregon, California, and Wyoming.
The map was current as of 10:45 a.m. MDT on Sunday. Red Flag Warnings can change throughout the day as the National Weather Service offices around the country update and revise their forecasts. For the most current data visit this NWS site.
Red Flag Warnings and fire weather watches have been issued for areas in Oregon, California, and Wyoming for Wednesday, September 3.
The map was current as of 8:30 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. For the most current data visit this NWS site.
It is always interesting to see how red flag criteria and forecasters’ interpretations of the data change at state lines. While the NWS map above shows no elevated fire danger in Nebraska, the following map provided by the Nebraska Forest Service for the same date has a different outlook.
#Nebraska #Fire danger #map for 9/03/14. The western part of the state, especially the panhandle, please use caution! pic.twitter.com/wwtkVZsIKV
— Nebraska Forest (@NebraskaForest) September 3, 2014
Red Flag Warnings have been issued for areas in Washington, Oregon, and Idaho. Thunderstorms with abundant lightning and rain are expected on Wednesday and into Wednesday night.
The map was current as of 8:10 a.m. PDT on Wednesday. Red Flag Warnings can change throughout the day as the National Weather Service offices around the country update and revise their forecasts. For the most current data visit this NWS site.
Red Flag Warnings and Fire Weather Watches have been issued for areas in California, Idaho, Washington, Oregon, and Montana. Forecasters are expecting thunderstorms in most of the locations, some with “abundant lightning”.
The map was current as of 8:10 a.m. PDT on Tuesday. Red Flag Warnings can change throughout the day as the National Weather Service offices around the country update and revise their forecasts. For the most current data visit this NWS site, or this one.
Red Flag Warnings and Fire Weather Watches have been issued for areas in Washington, Oregon, and northern California for Monday morning through Tuesday night. Forecasters are expecting thunderstorms, some with “abundant lightning” and little rain.
The map was current as of 8:15 a.m. MDT on Sunday. Red Flag Warnings can change throughout the day as the National Weather Service offices around the country update and revise their forecasts. For the most current data visit this NWS site.
Rain and Red Flag Warnings are in the weather forecast for different areas of northern California, Washington, and Oregon today. While some portions of northeast California received rain overnight, a Red Flag Warning will be in effect for areas in the far north part of the state along with sections of Oregon and Washington. “Abundant lightning” is the primary reason for the Warning, which will be in effect on Tuesday from 1 p.m. until 11 p.m.
At 5 a.m. PDT Tuesday morning, as you can see in the map below, some areas in California were receiving rain, but at that time it was missing most of the large fires.
The Red Flag Warning map was current as of 6 a.m. MDT on Tuesday. Red Flag Warnings can change throughout the day as the National Weather Service offices around the country update and revise their forecasts. For the most current data visit this NWS site.
Fire weather forecasters have issued a Red Flag Warning valid from 11 a.m. Monday until 2 a.m. Tuesday, PDT, for “abundant lightning” in northern California and some areas in Oregon. Significant rainfall is expected with some of the thunderstorms.
A Fire Weather Watch is in effect from late Monday night through Tuesday evening.
The Red Flag Warning map was current as of 8 p.m. MDT on Sunday. Red Flag Warnings can change throughout the day as the National Weather Service offices around the country update and revise their forecasts. For the most current data visit this NWS site.
(UPDATE at 5:56 p.m. PDT, August 2, 2014)
Nearly 1000 lightning strikes in last hour. That is only taking into account cloud to ground strikes. pic.twitter.com/LYWkaywJz3
— Lisa Van Cise (@lisavancise) August 3, 2014
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(Originally published at 3:17 p.m. PDT, August 2, 2014)
The fire weather forecasters enlarged the Red Flag Warning areas at mid-day on Saturday to include much larger areas in Oregon where lightning is in the forecast for today. Lightning is also predicted for the east half of Washington. A fire weather watch area, shown in yellow, is in effect for northeastern California.
The Red Flag Warning map was current as of 4 p.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. For the most current data visit this site.