URGENT FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE

Message from

Rhinebeck Emergency Management and the National Weather Service

 FIRE WATCH

URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY

439 PM EDT THURSDAY APR 19 2012

NORTHERN SARATOGA - NORTHERN WARREN - NORTHERN WASHINGTON - EASTERN SCHENECTADY - SOUTHERN SARATOGA - EASTERN ALBANY - WESTERN RENSSELAER - EASTERN GREENE - WESTERN COLUMBIA - EASTERN ULSTER - WESTERN DUTCHESS - SOUTHEAST WARREN - SOUTHERN WASHINGTON COUNTIES

...FIRE WEATHER WATCH IN EFFFET FROM FRIDAY AFTERNOON THROUGH FRIDAY EVENING FOR GUSTY WINDS AND LOW RELATIVE HUMITY FOR THE HUDSON RIVER VALLEY

THE NATIONAL WATHER SERVICE IN ALBANY HAS ISSUED A FIRE WEATHER WATCH FOR GUSY WINDS AND LOW RELATIVE HUMITY WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM FRIDAY AFTERNOON THROUGH EARLY FRIDAY EVENING.

AFFETED AREA HUDSON RIVER VALLEY.

WINDS...SOUTH 10 TO 15 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 30 MPH

TIMING ...FRIDAY AFTERNOON THROUGH EARLY FRIDAY EVENING

RELATIVE HUMITY...AS LOW AS 25 PERCENT

TEMPERATURES...IN THE MID TO UPPER 70s

IMPACTS...CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS

PRECAUTONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

A FIRE WEATHER WATCH MEANS THAT CRITICAL FIRE WE3ATHER CONDITIONS ARE FORECAST TO OCCUR.  LISTEN FOR LATER FORCASTS AND POSSIBLE RED FLAG WARNINGS.