####018000271#### FNUS38 KWNS 282157 PFWF38 DAY 3-8 FIRE WEATHER OUTLOOK AREAL OUTLINE NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER NORMAN OK 0355 PM CST TUE JAN 28 2025 VALID TIME 301200Z - 051200Z FIRE WEATHER OUTLOOK POINTS DAY 3-8 ... CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER AREA ... && ####018001640#### FNUS28 KWNS 282157 FWDD38 Day 3-8 Fire Weather Outlook NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK 0355 PM CST Tue Jan 28 2025 Valid 301200Z - 051200Z Fire weather concerns will remain low in the early part of the extended forecast. An upper-low that has remained over the western US will eject across the southern Rockies into the Plains D2/Wednesday through D3/Thursday, bringing windy conditions but also chances for precipitation across the central/southern Plains. A surface cyclone will develop across the southern Plains D3/Thursday, with strengthening of a lee trough across the High Plains. This pattern will favor a period of elevated fire-weather conditions, particularly across southwestern and western Texas where freeze cured grasses may support risk for fire spread. Elsewhere, marginal fuels and chances for additional precipitation should limit the potential for critical conditions. Zonal flow behind this departing system will favor periods of enhanced westerly flow overspreading the southern Rockies through the weekend, with lee troughing redeveloping D5/Saturday and D6/Sunday. This will bring potential warm/dry downslope flow across portions of western Texas into the Oklahoma Panhandle. Some portion of this region will have seen recent rainfall. However, Elevated to locally Critical fire-weather concerns will be possible across far western Texas where less precipitation was received. For now, confidence is low in highlighting any specific areas. ..Thornton.. 01/28/2025 ...Please see www.spc.noaa.gov/fire for graphic product... $$