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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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Abbreviation Label Enhancement Descriptions:
AVN AVN Aviation color enhancement
BD Dvorak Dvorak enhancement - used for Tropical Classifications with the Dvorak Technique
FT Funktop Funktop enhancement - developed by Ted Funk to highlight intense areas of precipitation
JSL JSL JSL2 enhancement - developed by Jim Lynch to bring out low level and high level clouds in tropical cyclones
IR2 Shortwave (IR2) Channel 2 Shortwave Infrared imagery - Shortwave, sometimes considered "night visible"
IR2F Fire (IR2) Infrared Channel 2 with the standard fire enhancement to show hot spot activity
IR2H Fire Hot Infrared Channel 2 with enhancemnet for the hot summer season
IR2W Fire Winter Infrared Channel 2 with enhancement for the cool winter season
IR4 None Unenhanced Channel 4 Infrared Imagery
RB Rainbow Rainbow enhancement curve - Colorful enhancement for a vivid data image.
RBTOP Rainbow New variation on the Rainbow enhancement curve - Colorful enhancement
RGB RGB Combination of Visible and Infrared using a three channel technique to form a Red/Green/Blue false color image.
VIS Visible Unenhanced Visible imagery that usually transitions to Infrared Channel 2 overnight
WV Water Vapor Infrared Channel 3