Fire Weather Outlook Discussion
Issued by NWS
Issued by NWS
142 FNUS28 KWNS 072119 FWDD38 Day 3-8 Fire Weather Outlook NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK 0317 PM CST Sun Dec 07 2025 Valid 091200Z - 151200Z ...Synopsis... Medium range ensemble guidance suggests a somewhat stagnant upper-level long wave pattern persisting across CONUS through midweek. The eastern U.S. will remain entrenched in a broader trough while ridging slowly amplifies and intrudes farther into the western states through the weekend. The broader northwesterly flow regime over the central U.S. should provide a source for colder, continental air mass intrusions into the eastern U.S., particularly over the weekend time frame which will limit fire weather concerns. Farther west under the slowly amplifying ridge, dry conditions should encompass much of the Southwestern U.S. while above normal temperatures expand west of the Continental Divide. Despite the upcoming persistent dry conditions across the Southwest, a diffuse surface pressure gradient and thus lower wind speeds along with marginal fuel dryness should allay broader fire weather concerns. ...Day 3/Tuesday - Southern High Plains... A surface trough extending southward from a deepening surface low across the Northern Plains should promote some overlap of lower relative humidity and breezy west/southwest winds across southeastern NM and West Texas on Day 3/Tuesday. However, marginal fuel dryness precludes introducing critical probabilities at this time. ..Williams.. 12/07/2025 ...Please see www.spc.noaa.gov/fire for graphic product... $$