00:00It's time for the forecast feed.
00:05Welcome to the forecast feed. This is where we give you a behind the scenes, more of a deeper
00:09depth, a deeper look at what we're thinking and how the forecast is coming together. And primarily
00:15as we go forward, I'm going to be focusing on the risk of fire danger across parts of the plains
00:21into the Midwest here as we head into next week. So you can see that overall what we're going to
00:25be watching out for is we even have a risk of fire danger over the next couple of days across
00:30the Northeast. And this is going to be particularly dangerous because as you look at the zone that
00:35we're watching out for, this zone has been having very bad drought. And that drought has led to a
00:41lot of the trees across this region shedding their leaves early. And those leaves are providing
00:48perfect tender for these wildfires to not only develop, but to explosively grow in potential.
00:54So we'll be watching that very closely here over the next couple of days. I also want to point out
00:59that as we head into next week, you can see the pattern with the jet stream is going to be bringing
01:03breezy and warmer conditions here across the, uh, from the four corners across the Northern Plains,
01:10the Midwest as well, we'll be watching out for that potential, but it's going to be this zone right
01:14here from Albuquerque to Minneapolis. We're going to be watching out for breezy and warmer conditions.
01:19And I also have that breezy and warmer conditions outlined here on the map to also coincide with
01:26the, the view that we're going to be watching out for here with the, uh, the zone of the,
01:33with the drought. So that zone right there is where we're primarily going to be watching out for. And
01:37you can see that the drought, fortunately for majority of that area, with the exception of the
01:41Rockies, isn't quite as bad as what we have been seeing, but still we'll be watching out for that
01:45potential. So overall, this is what we're going to be watching out for the timeline mainly is going
01:49to get going on Sunday. So here's a couple of different things that we normally look at as
01:54meteorologists to show you kind of like exactly, particularly what we're going to be looking out
01:59for. So this first one we're going to be showing you is going to be the, uh, the jet stream, the
02:03profile of the jet stream. And as we head into Sunday, one thing I want to point out is that if you
02:07look at this little, this little area here, let me go ahead and start it there on Sunday, this little
02:13area, the 576 line right there. If you pay attention to that 576 line, you will see that
02:19over the next couple of days. And as we head into the weekend, that 576 line is going to stay pretty
02:24much dominant across this region. And that's important because as you look here at the wind
02:29gust, these are going to be the, uh, the peak wind gusts that we were tracking between now and then.
02:34And you can see that as we head throughout the day on Sunday, look at how this map just really
02:38explodes here with strong winds. As we head throughout Sunday, even as we head into Monday,
02:43we're going to be tracking winds gusting 40 miles an hour. So as you look at this timeline,
02:48not just looking at the winds, but also as you look at other things, there's the cloud coverage
02:52right there, but looking from the winds, this right here is going to be the relative humidity
02:55values. This is a measure of the moisture in the atmosphere at the surface. And you can see that
03:00this is just going to be on this map. Whenever you see the greens and the blues, that's more moisture.
03:05But whenever you see the browns, I mean, look at this, this is just going to be a bone,
03:09bone dry forecast here as we head into next week. And then whenever you factor in things like cloud
03:14coverage, this is going to be whenever you see the darker shades, that's where you see the more
03:18sunshine. So it's going to be a sunny forecast next week as well. And as you look at the overall
03:22rainfall for that same time period, it is going to be once again, bone dry here as we head throughout
03:28the middle parts, the early to middle parts of next week. So not a lot of rainfall to talk about.
03:33And when you look at the total rainfall, I mean, we're going to see some impressive rainfall
03:36amounts, but just not in that zone that we were talking about for the risk of fire danger here
03:42as we head into next week. So overall, you can see that with these strong winds and with these dry
03:47conditions, this is where we're going to be watching out for really dangerous conditions
03:50here from Oklahoma all the way up through Michigan and the Great Lakes. So for this region,
03:55it is going to be dry and it is going to be windy. And you get that combination of those two things.
04:01That's why it's going to be so dangerous. And that's why the fire danger is really going to
04:05become elevated. And once again, the drought has been pretty bad here for some of these areas.
04:09So the trees have already shed a lot of their leaves and that's going to provide extra tender.
04:14So as we go forward, pay attention to all burn bans, any local or county burn bans,
04:18because we will be watching out for that elevated risk of fire danger heading into next week.
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