February 12, 2009

Windy!

Unusual weather for February... very high winds. And last night we had thunder and lightning! Right now we (and much of Virginia, WV, and Maryland) are under a "RED FLAG WARNING" until 9 PM.

Excerpt from Accuweather's alert: "WEST WINDS OF 20 TO 30 MPH WITH GUSTS AS HIGH AS 50 TO 60 MPH WILL COMBINE WITH LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY VALUES...AROUND 25 TO 30 PERCENT...TO PRODUCE INCREASED FIRE DANGER INTO EARLY THIS EVENING.

A RED FLAG WARNING MEANS THAT CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE EITHER OCCURRING NOW...OR WILL SHORTLY. A COMBINATION OF STRONG WINDS...LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY...AND WARM TEMPERATURES WILL CREATE EXPLOSIVE FIRE GROWTH POTENTIAL."

Wow! Considering the disastrous fires in Australia, this is reason to think about preventing wildfires. We live in a wooded area. One thing that's better about where we live now versus where we lived three years ago is that there are several routes we can take to drive out of here if there were a forest fire.

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