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Heat and Fire Weather Concerns in the West; Excessive Rainfall Possible in the South-Central U.S.

Heat will build over the Intermountain West and the Southwest the next couple of days. Lightning from dry thunderstorms can create new fire starts and combined with gusty winds may cause a fire to rapidly grow in Oregon and northern California. Flash flooding will be possible in New Mexico and west Texas today, as well as parts of the southern and central Plains due to slow moving thunderstorms. Read More >

LMRFC web graphics will be unavailable today (Jan 18, 2018) due to required computer upgrades. These include forecast status maps for mobile devices, observed precipitation, future precipitation, soil moisture, and winter weather web graphics. The exact time of restoration is not known at this time but is expected to be within the next couple of days.

The zoomable, panable map of river forecast locations on our main page will remain available. For alternate graphics of observed precipitation, future precipitation, soil moisture, winter weather web graphics, and others produced by the LMRFC, use the links at the bottom of the respective pages.