The local Weather Forecast Offices of the NWS also, under a prescribed set of criteria, issue Fire Weather Watches and Red Flag Warnings as needed, in addition to issuing the daily fire weather forecasts for the local service area.
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Analyses of historical meteorological data and national fire records in western North America show the primacy of climate in driving large regional fires via wet periods that create substantial fuels or drought and warming that extend conducive fire weather.
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The local Weather Forecast Offices of the NWS also, under a prescribed set of criteria, issue Fire Weather Watches and Red Flag Warnings as needed, in addition to issuing the daily fire weather forecasts for the local service area.
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On the national level, the NWS Storm Prediction Center issues fire weather analyses for days one and two of the forecast period that provide supportive information to the local WFO forecasts regarding particular critical elements of fire weather conditions.
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On the national level, the NWS Storm Prediction Center issues fire weather analyses for days one and two of the forecast period that provide supportive information to the local WFO forecasts regarding particular critical elements of fire weather conditions.
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Due to the potential for unavoidable ignitions related to the presence of the overhead transmission line to occur during extreme fire weather, the presence of the project would significantly increase the likelihood of a catastrophic wildfire ( Class I ).
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But in California, red flag warnings, the highest level of alert, remained in effect Saturday for the entire northern part of the state except for the coastline, said David Rowe, a fire weather specialist at the National Weather Service here.
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A separate but less imminent forecast may include a "'Fire Weather Watch "', which is issued to alert fire and land management agencies to the possibility that Red Flag conditions may exist beyond the first forecast period ( 12 hours ).
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Unconventional tactics were used to undermine the JNA's morale, such as firing weather rockets and sabotaging JNA tanks by planting mines underneath them while they were parked at night, causing them to explode when their crews started them in the morning.
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Though it will be days, or weeks, before investigators arrive at an official determination of the primary causes of the fatal Thirty Mile Fire, experts in fire weather forecasting and analysis say the incident certainly has all the characteristics of an inversion break.
