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Record Warmth Lingers; Fire Weather Concerns; Unsettled Pacific Northwest

More record warm temperatures are forecast this week from California, Southwest, Plains then into the Mississippi Valley and Southeast. The warmth combining with dry conditions may result in elevated to locally critical fire weather conditions. Meanwhile, another Pacific system will move across the Pacific Northwest with lower elevation rain and mountain snows. For Hawaii, conditions improving. Read More >

Unprecedented heat will continue to break high temperature records across the area through Thursday before a cooling trend begins. All time March high temperature records may again be topped by Thursday. With the heat comes wind by midweek which will increase fire weather concerns as precipitation will be limited to the high mountains of Colorado.