This update is intended to give the general public a broad scale overview of weather changes that could impact the Trout Fire through the week.
- Continued dry conditions, but lower wind speeds, are expected Wednesday.
- Winds from the southeast will return Thursday, and could become gusty. They’ll bring in increasing humidity for a few days.
- Early monsoon moisture will try and set up towards the weekend into early next week, but it looks like it’ll favor areas east of the Rio Grande, with breezy southwest winds and drier conditions in SW New Mexico.
The National Weather Service’s primary role with the Trout Fire is to provide direct support to the incident command team. We have a meteorologist on-site at the Incident Operations Center in Silver City. Their forecasts, more detailed than what’s presented here, help keep firefighters safe and influence firefighting strategy and operations.