SPC Day 3-8 Fire Weather Outlook
[html]SPC Day 3-8 Fire Weather Outlook
Day 3-8 Fire Weather Outlook
NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK
0347 PM CST Wed Dec 25 2024
Valid 271200Z - 021200Z
A series of mid-level troughs will progress across the CONUS into
the middle of next week, encouraging multiple rounds of surface
cyclone development across the central U.S. while surface high
pressure remains in place across much of the Interior West. Cool
surface conditions will prevail across the northern CONUS, while
areas along and east of the Mississippi River, as well as many
locales west of the Rockies, are likely to experience appreciable
precipitation accumulations. Conditions favorable for
wildfire-spread should be absent in most locations, except the
southern and central High Plains. Multiple days of dry and/or breezy
conditions are possible due to downslope flow from the Rockies,
which will be augmented by isallobaric flow from surface cyclones to
the east.
At the moment, there is consensus among medium-range guidance
members in potentially critically dry/windy conditions over portions
of the southern High Plains early next week, which will be preceded
by dry/breezy afternoons and no forecast precipitation
accumulations. As such, there is some potential for modest curing of
fine fuels before some of the driest/windiest conditions arrive.
Should guidance consensus continue to show critically dry/windy
conditions early next week, Critical probabilities may be needed in
future outlooks.
..Squitieri.. 12/25/2024
...Please see www.spc.noaa.gov/fire for graphic product...
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