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SPC Day 2 Fire Weather Outlook

SPC Day 2 Fire Weather Outlook

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Day 2 Fire Weather Outlook 
NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK
0230 PM CDT Tue Jul 30 2024

Valid 311200Z - 011200Z

An Elevated highlight area was introduced to portions of
Colorado/Wyoming High Plains, as well as adjacent areas of Kansas
and Nebraska, due to dry and windy post-frontal conditions over
modestly dry fuels.

...High Plains and Portions of the Front Range...

Newer forecast guidance suggests dry and windy conditions behind a
cold front moving across the Central Plains on Wednesday. Rainfall
over the last 3 days has resulted in the wetting of some fuels over
Colorado and Wyoming, but heating and drying from Tuesday into
Wednesday will result in some fuel curing, in addition to pockets of
receptive fuels remaining untouched by wetting rainfall. Relative
humidity values below 15% and wind gusts from 20-25 MPH are expected
to result in Elevated fire weather conditions across the Front Range
of the Rockies in Colorado during the morning and early afternoon
hours, with downslope winds in portions of Wyoming and northern
Colorado reaching maximum intensity during the late afternoon into
the early evening.

..Halbert/Squitieri.. 07/30/2024

.PREV DISCUSSION... /ISSUED 0139 AM CDT Tue Jul 30 2024/

...Synopsis...
A large-scale ridge will build across the western CONUS -- in the
wake of an eastward-moving trough over the northern Plains. While
this will promote increasingly warm/dry conditions across much of
the West, generally weak surface winds (outside of terrain-favored
areas) preclude any fire-weather highlights at this time.

...Please see www.spc.noaa.gov/fire for graphic product...


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