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Fire Weather Issues; Pacific System Moving Inland

Dry fuels, strong winds and dry weather will continue to bring elevated to critical fire weather conditions to the areas of the Plains, Midwest and Southeast today. A Pacific storm system will bring low elevation rain and heavy high elevation mountain snow to California through early week, expanding into the Pacific Northwest, Great Basin, and southern California on Tuesday. Read More >

NWS Jackson, KY Incident Meteorologists (IMETs) have deployed to wildfires in Colorado, Idaho, Washington, California, and Oregon during 2021 and provided weather support to incident management teams during what has been a very active season. Curious what the role of an IMET is on a wildfire? See the image below or go to https://www.weather.gov/news/imet-article