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Red Flag Fire Warning Today for Western OK
Comments (2)Scott I went to the OK Mesonet and looked at the OK FIRE screen and pulled up the Cookson station and your numbers there look pretty good for this time of year. Your ignition component is a little high, but so is everyone else's at this time of year. At least you are not in a Fire Weather Watch or Red Flag area, so your risk of an out-of-control fire there is low. For what it is worth, our neighbor was burning brushpiles in an area similar to yours yesterday, and his didn't get out of control. It is the grassy pastures, esp. those with sand love grass, that tend to go crazy burning like mad when the wind is up and the humidity is down. My county is not in a Red Flag Fire Warning area, but our humidity is plunging and it is pretty windy....not exactly enough to worry me, but enough that I don't go outside without the fire radio, and I do find myself watching the skies. You know what it is like here at this time of year. I'll be relieved when we make it to May. Hardening off the plants is hard. Every day I try to strategically place my plants in the most sheltered area I can and the wind (and especially the hot wind) still gets to them. That's just one of the things we have to deal with in March....and even into April. Good luck with your controlled burning this week. Dawn...See MoreToday's Fire Danger the Worst Yet::EXTREME
Comments (2)Sharon, That's a lovely thought and I hope people do pray for them. As a firefighter's mom, I always do so because every firefighter is someone's son or daughter, father or mother, husband or wife, brother or sister, grandson or granddaughter, etc. I'm hating how we went from 'too cold and wet' to 'too hot and windy' overnight, but hor weather sure does feel better than cold. Dawn...See MoreToday's Weather: Tornadoes, Hail, Rain, Fire?
Comments (6)Hi Y'all, I watched the radar, the NWS weather page and the skies all the whole day long....endlessly.....and went to bed with it still being 79 degrees at 10:30 p.m. and wind out of the south. However, there were very dark clouds to our west/northwest from about 6 p.m. and lightning from about 8 p.m. I think the rain squall line moved across between 11 and 11:30 p.m. and we had a pretty lively thunderstorm for a little while. Our Mesonet station only recorded .21 but my rain gauge has .75, so I am delighted. The forecast gives most of us a chance at rain again this weekend too! I did notice in the late afternoon and early evening hours that some places had wind gusts over 50 m.p.h. and about 15 counties had some form of hail, with the worst of it being from golf ball sized to tennis ball sized. No hail here, thankfully. Today, even though the ground is wet, it is still very dry. The lovely humidity that came with our south winds is pretty much gone, and our humidity is already in the 30s and dropping, which is not a good thing. When the humidity hits about 18 percent, my skin feels like it is cracking. Yesterday, DH ran to town to sign a request from the county's fire chiefs to the county commissioners requesting implementation of a burn ban. I think 3/4s of the 14 fire chiefs have to sign the request before the commissioners will vote on whether or not to have a burn ban. I'll sleep better once they put a burn ban in effect because the fire pagers hopefully will go off less at night. Our autumn foliage was gorgeous yesterday morning. This morning, most of it is on the ground, with the wind having stripped the leaves off the cedar elms, ash, redbuds, peaches, hickories, honey locust, wild cherries, plums, pecans and some of the oaks. Our post oaks, red oaks and blackjack oaks still have their leaves, though, and some of those trees' foliage isn't even changing color yet. I guess cold weather is settling in and tomorrow will be much colder than today. The rain was terrific. I hope the areas hit by high wind and hail didn't receive too much damage. Dawn...See MoreAnother Cold Front and Higher Fire Danger Today
Comments (1)We reached a warm and balmy, sunny, gorgeous 76 degrees here in Marietta, and then the cold front came in late in the evening, so I guess today will not be as warm. Our humidity dropped to a very low 12%, though, and my skin felt like it was cracking in that dry air. The potted brugs, still in bloom on the barn patio, soaked up the heat and sunlight, and I misted them to give them some moisture. Our VFD was dispatched to a couple of grassfires too, but nothing major. I guess we'll have a few pretty days before next week's forecasted cold front brings rain and snow. Of course, we all need the precipitation. Dawn...See Morekittymoonbeam
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