00:00Now, that actually does transition nicely because of these words right here, and I did not know that was going
00:05to be an arrow.
00:07We'll try that again.
00:08All right, so the fire risk, that's something we're seeing in Nebraska.
00:11We're seeing it in the southwest as well, especially we get up into the Rockies, Colorado, which I know the
00:16Rockies is not the entire state of Colorado, but you get the point, right?
00:19We're seeing elevated fire danger in part because of our heat wave here.
00:24So the other impacts to keep in mind, we talk about a lot of records, and that just kind of
00:28goes to show you how significant this is, but also heat-related illness.
00:33That's mid-summer conversations that we're having right now.
00:36Also, hot car deaths.
00:38Don't leave kids, pets in the car.
00:39It's just too dangerous, even if you think it's not that hot yet.
00:42And all of this is shifting west towards the plains.
00:46So let's break things down piece by piece.
00:48Red flags, warnings, fire weather, watches, they are out.
00:51They are going to be out for, really, the foreseeable future here as we, day by day, see the elevated
00:57fire danger shift a little bit in the exact areas.
00:59But overall, the message, take those precautions that you're usually thinking about mid-summer, take the precautions now.
01:05All right, here's the record.
01:06So Phoenix still on the map, of course, Las Vegas, but then we start to really pay attention to Salt
01:10Lake City.
01:11Denver, we're watching you for potentially the earliest 90 degrees on record.
01:16Now, right now, we're forecasting 88 for tomorrow, so maybe we don't hit it tomorrow.
01:20Maybe we hit it the next day.
01:22We're watching it closely, is the point.
01:24And, I mean, earliest 90 on record.
01:25And look at that previous record.
01:2775 is what we're trying to beat.
01:28We're obviously going to do that easily.
01:29It's just a matter of, do we stay in the 80s or do we warm up to the 90s?
01:33Things shifting east, though.
01:35Take a look at how far our shading goes, how far the heat, the temperature is above 15 to 30
01:41degrees above your historical average.
01:43It gets towards Chicago.
01:44It gets towards the Ohio Valley.
01:46Take a look at what happens Thursday.
01:47We shift even further to the east, just a little bit, but some new states, some new cities get in
01:52on the impact of that high pressure.
01:54That's now parked over Texas by the time we get to Thursday.
01:58Again, a lot of records.
01:59We can't fit them all in one graphic, so you're not seeing all of them.
02:02But at the very least, you're seeing temperatures way above where you should be this time of year.
02:07Here's some of the records.
02:09We start to pay more attention to Missouri, St. Louis, and Kansas City.
02:12Wichita, I mean, almost 10 degrees warmer than your previous record from 1918.
02:18When do we get some relief?
02:20Well, first, this weekend, some of you will start to see some improvement, places like L.A., even Salt Lake
02:25City.
02:26But next week, the pattern changes, and that is what you can look forward to.
02:30So, we're going to start to see some of the things that we can look forward to.
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