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An update on the largest wildfire in Texas history
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3/4/2024
Dr. Reed Timmer, Extreme Meteorologist, recaps some of the key points of the wildfire and discusses an outlook on what to potentially expect next.
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An elevated wildfire threat continues today across the southern high plains as
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winds are continuing to be relatively gusty and relative humidities are down
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around 10 to 15 percent and there's also some very dry fuels that remain out
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there and the wildfire threats going to continue through today and then a cold
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frontal passage is going to slide through and that will eventually
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mitigate the wildfire threat through the rest of the week but so far today
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firefighters are starting to do back burning to the south of some of these
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burn scars to try to prevent that southward spread that happens so rapidly
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with a cold front passage some of that back burning is happening near Catesby
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Oklahoma on the Catesby fire burn scar and around the southern periphery of the
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old Smokehouse Creek fire burn scar as well that one burned to over 1 million
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acres becoming the largest wildfire in Texas state history and that one even
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surpassed in some of those big mega fires from Colorado like the troublesome
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East troublesome fire and the Cameron Peak fire from a couple of years ago
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many of those mountain fires out in California as well are much smaller than
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the million acres burnt by this very fast-moving wildfire in the Texas
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Panhandle a grass fire driven by 40 to 60 mile-per-hour winds here in central
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Oklahoma the front has pushed off to the east and we have dry conditions back
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behind it so the wildfire threat grass fires the potential for those is going
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to remain elevated through the afternoon as well so certainly from a fire
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weather standpoint this is likely the last day at least with this round with
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this trough where it's going to remain elevated in the southern high plains
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but I do think that when the next system comes through those windy conditions are
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going to bring a resumed threat of fires to the area
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