Fire Weather Update... No Campfires

Thank you all for your continued vigilance for wildfire hazards.  We will continue allowing “Early Shift High Risk Activities” for the next three days…Friday will be the last day for High Risk Activities.   We have moved back to EXTREME with the other nearby areas) for now, and there is still the outdoor fire ban in place Provincially.  NO CAMPFIRES. 

Here is our fire weather for Tuesday onwards:  "Bands of moisture entrained in a fairly stable north-westerly flow aloft should maintain cooler and cloudier conditions across the northern half of the region today with progressively warmer, drier and sunnier conditions to the south. Light inflow winds should support good overnight recoveries again tonight in all areas & elevations. A flat upper ridge should drift onshore on Wednesday brining a general trend towards slightly warmer, drier, and sunnier conditions to all zones. Temperatures in the inland valleys of the Island and Mainland should hover in the mid to potentially upper twenties across the south with humidity on the Island dipping slightly below 30% in spots 

6 TO 10 DAY: An upper ridge should support between two and four drying days starting Sunday with temperatures hovering near or slightly above seasonal normals (low to mid twenties), light inflow winds, and not overly low humidities (above 25%). The next upper trough and associated frontal system should arrive near the middle of next week (Aug 22-ish) bringing increasing winds, showers, and possible thundershowers (showers generally more widespread across the north and spottier across the south).

Good overnight recoveries means that Early Shift activities should be safe, but please maintain the two-hour fire watch and have extinguishment capabilities handy, as required by the Wildfire Act, after chain-sawing, mowing, milling, chipping, excavating etc. This late in the season any humidity approaching 30% or lower means explosive fire behaviour so we are not out of the woods yet, so to speak.  And a BIG thank-you to the persons who are cautioning cigarette smokers on our roads to be fire safety conscious…you know who you are and we very much appreciate your pro-active efforts in keeping us all safe.

TIVFD