Extreme Heat and Fire Weather Conditions in the West; Heavy Rain in the Southeast; Poor Air Quality

Extreme heat will begin to peak across the Desert Southwest. Multiple days of hot, dry and windy conditions are expected to bring fire weather concerns for portions of the Four Corners region into the central Great Basin and Rockies. Heavy rainfall and a flash flooding threat continues in the Southeast. Poor air quality persists from the Upper Midwest into the Northeast due to wildfire smoke. Read More >

At the request of Howard County government, the National Weather Service Baltimore/Washington Weather Forecast Office will issue a TEST Flash Flood Warning for Ellicott City around 9:30am. This will allow Howard County MD government to test their alerting systems in Ellicott City. There is no flooding in the area.

Since this is a test warning, it should NOT alert cell phones or NOAA weather radios.

Further information from the county is available on the Ellicott City Safe and Sound page here.

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