Current Fire Weather Conditions

The fire weather map displays the current values of some of the most important weather variables to wildland fire behavior: relative humidity, winds, and temperature. Mesonet stations are represented by solid dots on the map. To the upper left of each dot is shown the air temperature (F) in red; to the lower left, relative humidity (%) is shown in green; and to the upper right, if wind gusts >= 20 mph exist at that location, they are depicted by Gnn, where nn is the wind gust speed in mph at the 10-m level. 10-m winds (averaged over 5 minutes) are depicted by a wind barb system. A half barb along the staff represents 5 mph; a full barb, 10 mph, and a flag, 50 mph. One adds them up to get the total average wind speed. Winds blow in a direction along the staff from the barbed end to the station dot. Calm winds are depicted by an open circle around the station dot. This map is updated every 5 minutes.