Good Wednesday! Mild temperatures this afternoon will creep up to 80 degrees here in the Chattanooga Metro area. Conditions will be calm, with low humidity levels, and light breezes. Tonight temps fall back into the lower 40s.
Today’s beautiful conditions are also the ingredients for high fire danger across our viewing area. Numerous wildfires have been reported over the last few days.
Current air quality conditions are deteriorating with the most unhealthy AQI conditions in Northern Georgia.
Use EXTREME caution if you have to/have permission to burn outside. The best choice of action to avoid life and structure-threatening wildfires is not to burn at all.
Discard cigarettes in proper disposal bins. Cigarettes tossed carelessly to the ground are one of the most common ways wildfires start in the first place.
High fire danger conditions will continue until our next system brings rainfall to the Tennessee Valley.
Rain chances trickle in on Thursday. A few showers could be possible during the afternoon. A stray shower is also possible on Friday, but the biggest rain chances occur starting on Saturday.
We will be in Storm Alert Weather mode Saturday evening into early Sunday morning. The National Weather Service has already issued an enhanced risk of severe weather that covers the entire viewing area. All modes of severe weather will be possible, but the largest risk will be damaging, straight-line wind gusts.
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