National Fire News

High pressure amplifies along the West Coast with sharp warming and drying in the West, with above normal temperatures, low relative humidity and poor to moderate humidity recovery. Gusty east winds continue through Tuesday night in western Washington and begin to decrease during the day in western Oregon. Fire behavior will pick up on existing fires with an increase in initial attack possible from recent lightning. Cooler temperatures, higher RH and scattered showers and thunderstorms continue across the Rockies east of the Divide, the Plains into New Mexico and the Texas Panhandle. Strong high pressure stretches from the Northeast and Great Lakes to the southern Plains with continued well above normal temperatures and low relative humidity. Isolated thunderstorms in the Lower Mississippi Valley with an uptick in initial attack. Low pressure continues in the Mid-Atlantic with scattered showers and thunderstorms from coastal Northeast south to the Mid-Atlantic and southern Appalachians. Scattered showers and thunderstorms continue in central and southern Florida.