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Unsettled Weather in the Eastern U.S. through Memorial Day

Wet, stormy, and unsettled weather continues for much of the eastern half of the U.S. through Memorial Day. There is potential for scattered flash flooding across the Central Gulf Coast into North Georgia and across the Upper Ohio Valley. Severe storms capable of hail/wind may occur across the Middle Missouri Valley/Siouxland and across other parts of the central and southern Plains and Southeast. Read More >

 

February 25, 2008 Wildfires in Southeast New Mexico and the Permian Basin

 

 

A surface low pressure system that developed earlier today has resulted in very windy conditions across all of southwest Texas and southeast New Mexico this afternoon. Extremely critical fire weather and multiple fires continue across the region.

The satellite image below shows the active fires at 250 PM CST. The black pixels on the image show the "hot spots".

 

           

A wind shift line, followed by a cool front, will move through the area this evening. The fires that are visible on radar are circled in red below.