Wildfire Conditions Back in the Northwest

The extreme heat is expected to return for Labor Day weekend and the very hot temperatures continue to bring along dangerous conditions.

USDA Meteorologist Brad Rippey said, “We still have a bit of a tinder box across much of the west. We have the grasses and brush that came from last winter and are now fully cured and until we start seeing the seasonal rains move back in this fall and then snowfall after that, we do maintain that threat of wildfires especially anytime we have low humidity, gusty winds and high temperatures which is exactly what we have in parts of the west.”

Rippey said much of the conversation around weather right now is Hurricane Harvey, but the west is getting into more and more precious situations.