Fire Weather – Thoughts From The Middle of Nowhere

I had to double check my calender this morning. Yes it is the 31st of March and I see the weather service has issued, of all things, a fire weather watch. n<!–more–> n…A FIRE WEATHER WATCH HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR WEDNESDAY…FOR MONTANA FIRE nWEATHER ZONES 124 THROUGH 133…FOR INCREASING SOUTHERLY WINDS AND VERY nLOW RELATIVE HUMIDITIES AHEAD OF A COLD FRONT WEDNESDAY NIGHT. THE FIRE nWEATHER WATCH INCLUDES PORTIONS OF SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST MONTANA nAND WESTERN SOUTH DAKOTA… n n.DISCUSSION… nHIGH PRESSURE ALOFT WILL CONTINUE TO BRING HOT DRY CONDITIONS TO THE nAREA THROUGH WEDNESDAY EVENING. RELATIVE HUMIDITIES WILL RECOVER INTO nTHE 50 AND 60 PERCENT RANGES OVERNIGHT…AND THEN DROP INTO THE SINGLE nDIGITS AND TEENS ON WEDNESDAY AS TEMPERATURES CLIMB INTO THE 70S AND n80S. WINDS WILL INCREASE TO 10 TO 20 MPH FROM A SOUTHEAST TO SOUTHWEST nDIRECTION WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON…AHEAD OF AN APPROACHING COLD FRONT. THE nCOLD FRONT WILL MOVE THROUGH THE AREA WEDNESDAY NIGHT SHIFTING WINDS TO nTHE NORTHWEST WITH GUSTS TO 35 MPH POSSIBLE. SCATTERED RAIN SHOWERS WILL nHOLD OFF UNTIL THE FRONT HAS MOVED THROUGH…AND AT THIS TIME nTHUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY IS NOT EXPECTED WITH THIS SYSTEM. THURSDAY <acronym title="Country of Origin Labeling">COOL</acronym> nHIGH PRESSURE MOVES INTO THE AREA WITH TEMPERATURES 10 TO 15 DEGREES nCOOLER THAN WEDNESDAY…AND HIGHER RELATIVE HUMIDITIES. n nA lot of the city people out there thing the weather we have been having is fantastic, but it is scaring the living hell out of me. We need moisture. At this point rain or snow, I don't care. Actually I am not overly concerned about the fire weather watch since there isn't any grass to burn and if the weather holds we won't grow any this year to worry about burning. So goes the agricultural buisness in Montana. n nFrom our earliest hour we have been taught that the thought of the heart, the shaping of the rain-cloud, the amount of wool that grows on a sheepâ