the pacific ocean, we ll knock the temperatures down into the lower 90s for daytime highs. hot and dry weather established over the western u.s. clearly, but this is also creating a fire risk you can imagine with the triple digit heat, bone dry conditions and the potential for scattered dry thunderstorms we have an elevated fire threat. what is a dry storm? glad you asked. a lot of times these thunderstorms west of the rockies don t have a lot of precipitation associated with them, they often create lightning and that lightning can start forest fires very quickly. the rain actually evaporates before it reaches the ground. the embers start to burn, smolder and spread very quick beingly. and we ll talk about some of the fires ongoing in a moment. but this these are the red flag warnings that we have in place from utah into nevada, california and the state of washington. we have over 39 active large fires that are in place across the western u.s. and it really
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