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Message from Snohomish County Fire Marshall:

This is one of the most critical fire weather setups in years for Western WA. Red Flag warning in effect from 1400 today until 0500 tomorrow. An upper level low pressure center will help thunderstorms to first develop over north Cascades this afternoon. Once storms develop, they will first move in an unusual SW direction toward the North interior of WA. early this evening. Then South thru the central cascades and the Puget Sound low lands later today. So of the thunderstorms are expected to be unusually prolific lighting producers. Given the expected abundance of lightning and critically dry fuel states - Multiple fire ignitions are expected. One thing that makes this round of lightning so critical is that it will be followed up on Sunday and Monday by a building heat wave unlike Western WA.'s typical lightning pattern which is followed by cool marine air, this lightning pattern will be followed by hot, dry, increasingly unstable weather on Sun, Monday, Tue. This will make holdover and sleeper fires a much greater concern thatn with a more typical lightning episode for Eastern WA.

Sounds like normal Yakama summer weather.

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URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPOKANE WA
1030 AM PDT SAT JUL 25 2009

...SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WITH ABUNDANT LIGHTNING EXPECTED
THIS AFTERNOON AND OVERNIGHT OVER MUCH OF THE CENTRAL CASCADES...

WAZ676-677-680-682-260130-
/O.NEW.KOTX.FW.W.0004.090725T2100Z-090726T1200Z/
EAST WASHINGTON SOUTH CENTRAL CASCADE VALLEYS (ZONE 676)-
EAST WASHINGTON CENTRAL CASCADE VALLEYS (ZONE 677)-
EAST WASHINGTON SOUTH CENTRAL CASCADE MOUNTAINS (ZONE 680)-
EAST WASHINGTON CENTRAL CASCADE MOUNTAINS (ZONE 682)-
1030 AM PDT SAT JUL 25 2009

...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 2 PM THIS AFTERNOON TO 5 AM
PDT SUNDAY FOR ABUNDANT LIGHTNING AND DRY FUELS...

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SPOKANE HAS ISSUED A RED FLAG
WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 2 PM THIS AFTERNOON TO 5 AM PDT
SUNDAY FOR ABUNDANT LIGHTNING AND DRY FUELS.

AN UPPER LEVEL LOW PRESSURE AREA LINGERING OVER WASHINGTON WILL
STEER THUNDERSTORMS FORMING ALONG ITS EDGES DOWN INTO THE CENTRAL
CASCADES LATER TODAY AND OVERNIGHT. DESPITE THESE STORMS APPEARING
TO BE RATHER WET AND EFFICIENT PRECIPITATION PRODUCERS THE
ABUNDANT LIGHTNING COULD OVERWHELM INITIAL SUPPRESSION EFFORTS.
THESE THUNDERSTORMS COULD ALSO CONTAIN GUSTY AND ERRATIC WIND
GUSTS IN ADDITION TO SIGNIFICANT RAINFALL.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

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 EXPLOSIVE FIRE GROWTH POTENTIAL.

&&

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I suppose I should charger all of my radio batteries...DNR & FS are quiet so far this morning...

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Seems just yesterday we were babbling about the code red snow...
Some activity on DNR 'Deer Park'. Mostly referencing staffing, no burners yet.
I'm in Spokane right now so out of range for FS comms.

Looks like a new one- Johnson Lake Complex:
http://www.inciweb.org/incident/1755/

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