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This mornings emailed Red Flag warning, Wednesday, 08/12/2015.

My almost daily emailed alerts, still hot and dry!


Alert: Red Flag Warning in effect from noon Today to 9 PM PDT this evening
Dear Joseph Brown,
...A SURFACE THERMAL TROUGH WILL BRING DRY AND UNSTABLE CONDITIONS TO PORTIONS OF EASTERN WASHINGTON AND NORTH IDAHO TODAY... .A STRONG THERMAL TROUGH POSITIONED ACROSS IDAHO THROUGH EASTERN WASHINGTON WILL BRING NEAR RECORD HEAT TODAY. THIS FEATURE WILL PRODUCE UNSTABLE CONDITIONS IN THE LOWER LEVELS OF THE ATMOSPHERE. THIS WILL RESULT IN THE POTENTIAL FOR ACTIVE FIRE BEHAVIOR AND PLUME DOMINATED FIRES ON ANY ACTIVE FIRES OR NEW STARTS. ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT FROMNOON TODAY TO 9 PM PDT THIS EVENING FOR UNSTABLE THERMAL TROUGH FOR NORTH IDAHO...AND NORTH AND CENTRAL WASHINGTON MOUNTAINS AND VALLEYS... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SPOKANE HAS ISSUED A RED FLAG WARNING FOR UNSTABLE THERMAL TROUGH...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM NOON TODAY TO 9 PM PDT THIS EVENING.

* AFFECTED AREA: FIRE WEATHER ZONE 101 NORTHERN AND CENTRAL IDAHO PANHANDLE (ZONE 101)...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 673 EAST WASHINGTON NORTHERN COLUMBIA BASIN (ZONE 673)...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 674 EAST WASHINGTON PALOUSE AND SPOKANE AREA (ZONE 674)... FIRE WEATHER ZONE 676 EAST WASHINGTON SOUTH CENTRAL CASCADE VALLEYS (ZONE 676)...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 677 EAST WASHINGTON CENTRAL CASCADE VALLEYS (ZONE 677)...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 684 EAST WASHINGTON OKANOGAN/METHOW VALLEYS (ZONE 684)...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 685 EAST WASHINGTON NORTH CASCADES (ZONE 685)... FIRE WEATHER ZONE 686 EAST WASHINGTON NORTHEAST (ZONE 686) AND FIRE WEATHER ZONE 687 EAST WASHINGTON OKANOGAN HIGHLANDS (ZONE 687).

* WINDS: SOUTH 5 TO 10 MPH.

* TIMING: NOON THROUGH 9 PM.

* RELATIVE HUMIDITIES: 11 TO 22 PERCENT.

* TEMPERATURES: 90S AND 100S VALLEYS...80S IN THE MOUNTAINS

* IMPACTS: COMBINED WITH DRY FUELS...THESE UNSTABLE CONDITIONS WILL RESULT IN THE POTENTIAL FOR VERY ACTIVE FIRE BEHAVIOR WITH CONVECTIVE COLUMNS AND POSSIBLE PLUME DOMINATED FIRES TODAY.

* AFFECTED AREAS: IDAHO PANHANDLE

Instructions:
A RED FLAG WARNING MEANS THAT CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE EITHER OCCURRING NOW...OR WILL SHORTLY. A COMBINATION OF STRONG WINDS...LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY...AND WARM TEMPERATURES WILL CREATE EXTREME FIRE GROWTH POTENTIAL.

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It has been HOT the last few days! Right at 100 last night at 5 when we were heading home. It only got down to 65 for the low this morning, so not cool! 
At least it is predicted to get cooler Friday and over the weekend, maybe even some rain. 
There is a fire currently burning up near the Canadian border for the last two plus weeks, the Parker Canyon fire, that continues to slowly grow, it is over 600 acres as of last evening with possible evacuations being considered if the fire's growth can't be stopped in 2 miles of some homes. 

 Down in the Bayview area of Sandpoint, where there was a very large fire around the 4th of July that made the national newscasts, another fire continues to slowly grow in that general area. 
Hot and dry is the theme of the entire Northwest this year, as with many other areas too.
Making the regional news is many streams are being closed to fishing due to heat stressing of the fish population causing die offs because of the water temps of the streams are getting so high. 

 Last weekend we watched a movie, Snowpiercer, I had recorded off of DirecTv on the hard drive. I had kept reading all kinds of glorious reviews of how great it was. 
WRONG! 
It instantly was NOT that great and as I looked it up on my iPad at Internet Movie Database, I saw most reviews there were the complete opposite of great, with most emphasizing how the plot, that there was anyway, was convoluted and basically made no sense, I whole heartily agree! 
But, forgetting it's a bad Korean movie, even with all the US "star power" in it, the premise that 'causes' the movie is very plausible to me. 
The earth keeps getting hotter so science creates a 'cure' but in deploying the cure it causes a global ice age that freezes the entire planet. 
Yup, I could see that. I expect there are scientist someplace currently working on how to get control of the weather and bring 'normal' back to really meaning normal again. 

 Will they? Maybe, but I can see things easily going wrong in messing with the atmosphere. 

 We'll have to wait and see what happens!  






Alert Details
Severity:
Severe - Significant threat to life or property
Urgency:
Expected - Responsive action SHOULD be taken soon (within next hour)
Certainty:
Likely (p > ~50%)
Category:
Meteorological (inc. flood)
Event Description:
Red Flag Warn

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