National Fire News

A Pacific storm will continue to move through the Intermountain West today with rain and mountain snow, locally heavy. Breezy westerly winds will develop across southern New Mexico into far West Texas creating elevated fire weather conditions. As the storm moves eastward this weekend, widespread precipitation will develop from the eastern Plains to the East Coast, falling as snow from Kansas and Missouri into the Great Lakes, upstate New York, and northern New England. Severe thunderstorms are also likely in the Deep South on Saturday. Another Pacific storm will move through the northern half of the West Sunday into Monday with valley rain and mountain snow. The storm will then move toward the Gulf Coast and off the East Coast early to mid-next week, with rain across much of Texas to the Southeast, with snow on the northern periphery from the Ohio Valley to the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast. Very cold Arctic air will get pulled southward behind the associated cold front, with widespread below zero temperatures across the central and northern Plains and Midwest. Another Pacific storm will move into the northern half of the West late next week, while the southern half of the West is likely to remain dry with occasional westerly breezes.