Storm Water Compliance: Facing a Dry Year estormwater.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from estormwater.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
With solid recent rainfall, all fire restrictions in Pitkin County will end Friday morning, officials said Tuesday.
Stage 1 fire restrictions also will end in the White River National Forest and some surrounding counties, said Aspen Fire Chief Rick Balentine and Pitkin County Emergency Manager Valerie MacDonald.
“The data doesn’t support us being in fire restrictions,” MacDonald said, “mainly because of the moisture surge we’ve had lately.”
Still, with fire seasons extending into October in recent years, officials warned the public to remain on guard about wildfire danger.
“Although we are coming out of fire restrictions, I’m asking all Pitkin County residents and visitors to remember that fire season is far from over,” Sheriff Joe DiSalvo said in a Tuesday news release. “Everyone should remain vigilant, adhere to fire safety rules and report all smoke and fire to 911 immediately.”
Adios La Niña: Key pattern relaxes and may shake up weather around the world Matthew Cappucci A look at sea surface temperature anomalies around the world. (Tropical Tidbits) The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced on Thursday that a key weather feature that affects global temperature and precipitation has shifted into a “neutral,” or average, state. La Niña, one of the factors behind last year’s extremely active Atlantic hurricane season and a contributor to below-average rainfall in the South and Southwest, has faded away. That means we’re currently in a middle ground between El Niño and La Niña. The former describes an anomalous warming of waters in the eastern tropical Pacific, while La Niña reflects a cooling of the waters there.
87 million Americans under frost and freeze alerts, as wintry weather’s last big blast surges east Matthew Cappucci, Jason Samenow Temperature difference from normal predicted by European model Thursday morning. From the Rockies to the Northeast, a cruel blast of unusually wintry April weather is barreling east. Accumulating snow has already blanketed Denver, while Indianapolis, Cleveland and Buffalo await up to several inches of snow between Tuesday afternoon and Wednesday. Where it’s not snowing, it’s turning abnormally cold. The National Weather Service has issued frost and freeze watches and warnings for 87 million Americans from Texas to Virginia. By Thursday morning, temperatures will be at least 10 degrees below normal from eastern Montana to north Florida.
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