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Red Flag Warning

RED FLAG WARNING

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE

425 AM EDT MON APR 23 2007

...RED FLAG WARNING FOR THIS AFTERNOON INTO THIS EVENING FOR THE MID-HUDSON VALLEY, INTERIOR PORTIONS OF THE LOWER HUDSON VALLEY AND SOUTHERN CONNECTICUT...

.THE REGION WILL BE BETWEEN AN AREA OF HIGH PRESSURE OFF THE

CAROLINA COAST AND AN AREA OF LOW PRESSURE IN THE SAINT LAWRENCE

RIVER VALLEY MONDAY AFTERNOON. THIS WILL RESULT IN GUSTY SOUTH TO

SOUTHWEST WINDS...COUPLED WITH LOW HUMIDITY AND DRY FUELS ACROSS

THE WARNING AREA.

425 AM EDT MON APR 23 2007

...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT FROM THIS AFTERNOON INTO THIS EVENING...

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A RED FLAG

WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT THIS AFTERNOON INTO THIS EVENING. THE FIRE WEATHER WATCH IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT.

TEMPERATURES WILL WARM TO THE LOWER TO MID 80S THIS AFTERNOON ON

SOUTH TO SOUTHWEST WINDS OF 15 TO 20 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 25 MPH.

THE GUSTY WINDS...IN COMBINATION WITH RELATIVE HUMIDITIES BELOW 30

PERCENT AND LOW FUEL MOISTURES...WARRANT THE RED FLAG WARNING

ACROSS INTERIOR PORTIONS OF THE LOWER HUDSON VALLEY...THE MID-HUDSON VALLEY, AND SOUTHERN CONNECTICUT FROM EARLY THIS AFTERNOON INTO THE 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.

Edited April 23, 2007 by emt301