[EDIS] Red flag warning today for dry lightning over San Diego county

Monday, July 9, 2007

[EDIS] Red flag warning today for dry lightning over San Diego county

[EDIS] red flag warning today for dry lightning over san diego county mountains... ... fire weather watch this evening through tuesday morning for dry lightning over valleys... mountains... and deserts

SAN DIEGO COUNTY MOUNTAINS-INCLUDING THE PALOMAR AND DESCANSO RANGER DISTRICTS OF THECLEVELAND NATIONAL FOREST-

.AIR MASS BECOMING UNSTABLE AS TROPICAL WAVE APPROACHES FROM THE SOUTHEAST. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS LIKELY OVER SAN DIEGO COUNTY MOUNTAINS BY MIDDAY. THUNDERSTORMS MAY CONTINUE THROUGH THE NIGHT AS THE TROPICAL WAVES MOVES ACROSS THE AREA. HOWEVER THE DEEP MOISTURE NOT EXPECTED TO ARRIVE UNTIL UNTIL TUESDAY AFTERNOON... SO ANY LIGHTNING BEFORE THEN WILL LIKELY BE DRY. ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 5 PM PDT THIS AFTERNOON FOR DRY LIGHTNING... ...FIRE WEATHER WATCH IN EFFECT FROM 5 PM PDT THIS AFTERNOON THROUGH TUESDAY MORNING FOR THE POSSIBILITY OF SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WITH DRY LIGHTNING... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SAN DIEGO HAS ISSUED A RED FLAG WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 5 PM PDT THIS AFTERNOON. A FIRE WEATHER WATCH HAS ALSO BEEN ISSUED. THIS FIRE WEATHER WATCH IS IN EFFECT FROM 5 PM PDT THIS AFTERNOON THROUGH TUESDAY MORNING. ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO FORM OVER THE SAN DIEGO COUNTY MOUNTAINS BY LATE MORNING AND INCREASE TO SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS DURING THE AFTERNOON AND EVENING. DRY LIGHTNING IS LIKELY TO OCCUR FROM THESE THUNDERSTORMS. THUNDERSTORMS MAY CONTINUE THROUGH THE NIGHT AND TUESDAY MORNING. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WOULD ALSO CONTAIN DRY LIGHTNING. THUNDERSTORMS ARE LIKELY TO FORM AGAIN TUESDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING...AND AGAIN ON WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY. HOWEVER THE AIR MASS IS EXPECTED TO BE MOIST ENOUGH TO GENERATE WETTING RAINS...WHICH SHOULD LOWER THE THREAT OF DRY LIGHTNING AND EXPLOSIVE FIRE GROWTH.

Instruction:
A RED FLAG WARNING MEANS THAT CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE EITHER OCCURRING NOW...OR WILL SHORTLY THAT WILL CREATE EXPLOSIVE FIRE GROWTH POTENTIAL. A FIRE WEATHER WATCH MEANS THAT CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE FORECAST TO OCCUR. LISTEN FOR LATER FORECASTS AND POSSIBLE RED FLAG WARNINGS.

Area: SAN DIEGO COUNTY MOUNTAINS-INCLUDING THE PALOMAR AND DESCANSO RANGER DISTRICTS OF THECLEVELAND NATIONAL FOREST-

Affected Counties or parts of: San Diego, Riverside, San Bernardino, Kern, Orange, Imperial, Los Angeles,

Sent: 2007-07-09T09:54:14-07:00

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Monday, July 9, 2007