We Aren’t Out of The Woods Yet: Extreme Fire Hazard

We didn’t quite make it to three consecutive days of HIGH Fire Hazard weather and forest conditions, and it looks like we have to face another week of very warm weather with drying winds.  All three reporting stations’ data that we use are back up to EXTREME, despite that little glitch of rain on Sunday.  Therefore, we will continue in EXTREME FIRE HAZARD for the rest of the week.  No High Hazard Activities will be permitted near forest, bush or grassland.  We will post on ESPOKES when conditions change enough to lower the Hazard Rating here. Hang in there for another week until we can get back to cooler, damper weather.

Here is the fire weather forecast for the next few days:
OUTLOOK: An upper trough is forecast to swing across the Coast on Wednesday generating some cloud, cooler temperatures, and gusty westerly winds. Precipitation accompanying the trough will be light and once again confined to the North and Mid Coasts. The most significant change with the passing trough will be the shift in wind direction from west to northwest late in the day Wednesday. A new ridge of high pressure will then build offshore on Thursday and Friday, placing the Fire Centre in a dry northerly flow. As conditions heat up once again, an outflow pattern will develop on Friday resulting in hot and dry weather, quite atypical for the second week of September. Rainfall continues to elude the South Coat for the foreseeable future.
CONFIDENCE/DISCUSSION: Good confidence with the relatively cool and less windy pattern today. Also, goo confidence in the hot and dry weather building Tuesday followed by winds on Wednesday.
6 TO 10 DAY: Our next round of hot weather looks to persist until Saturday followed by a marked cool-down beginning Sunday. Next week looks much more fall-like with below seasonal temperatures. There are slight chances of light rainfall reaching the South Coast towards the middle of next week but there’s no sign of any significant rainfall for still some time.

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