Wednesday, October 30, 2019

FEMA Daily Ops Brief - red flags CA AZ NV

per weather.gov -

Extremely Dangerous Fire Weather Conditions for California

Critical and extremely critical fire weather conditions continue
across parts of California through Thursday, especially for southern
California. Powerful and strong offshore Santa Ana winds will combine
with very low relative humidity levels and overall dry conditions to
create unfortunately favorable conditions for rapid fire growth and
extreme fire behavior of existing and new fires.

most of CA has red flags - except central - az and nv have tiny areas
of red flags

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per https://www.weather.gov/lox/

graphic shows 'extreme red flag' but map just shows 'red flag'

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Significant Incidents or Threats:
• Kincade Fire - CA; GettyFire - CA
• Heavy rain/flash flooding possible – Tennessee Valley to Mid-Atlantic
• Extreme fire weather – CA

Tropical Activity:
• Atlantic: Disturbance 1: Medium (50%)
• Eastern Pacific: Disturbance 1: Low (20%)
• Central Pacific: No tropical cyclones are expected through the next 5 days
• Western Pacific: No activity affecting U.S. interests

Declaration Activity: None

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