Wednesday, April 11, 2012

Settling Winds

Today: Partly sunny. Slight chance for spot showers. North wind 10-15 mph. High temp of 44 and low temp of 56.

Settling winds is the story today. We are still going be to breezy...but we are not going to have the wind gusts

Newark's peak wind gust on Monday: 49 mph
Newark's drought level: D0 (abnormally dry)
* drought scale is from 0 - 4 and is updated every Thursday at 8:30 AM EST

It was been extremely dry and windy...which allowed for the development of brush fires! 
Check out these pictures posted on the National Weather Service's Facebook page.
  Radar image showing the detection of the smoke plume.
The brush fire that was taken from radar site on Monday afternoon.

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