Critical Fire Weather Persists in the Southern Plains; Severe Weather and Heavy Rain Expected Over the Weekend

High winds and very dry conditions will continue to produce elevated to critical fire weather conditions over portions of New Mexico and far western Texas through Saturday. Heavy snow will continue in the Central Rockies Heavy rain, flooding, and severe thunderstorm risks increase from the Southern Plains into the Lower Missouri Valley this weekend. Read More >

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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.

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Critical Fire Weather Persists in the Southern Plains; Severe Weather and Heavy Rain Expected Over the Weekend

NWS Jackson, KY Incident Meteorologists Support Western Wildfires