Yes, it will be warm but also very dry and rather windy, and that's a bad combination. The fires rage on, as far as I know. I have plenty of quality time outdoors and have gotten some good ideas for the modest landscaping I'd like to do this year.
Warm but not hot. I like that a lot. Wind could be a problem, however. I'll do some work outside and later I will just enjoy being outside. Partly cloudy right now. Panhandle blazes continue and wind today might make them even worse. A terrible situation, for sure.
The headlines ignore it now, but the fires in the panhandle are still not contained and still doing terrible damage. One has moved into Oklahoma, and there are two known fatalities. Livestock losses are devastating. But now it's old news. That fast. On to the next thing. Short attention spans.
Probably a million acres burned by this time, in total, by the various wildfires north of us. Terrible to think of the suffering, both human and animal. It's been very dry up there. I shouldn't say "human and animal" because we are only another species of animal. All suffering is animal suffering. And all behavior is animal behavior.
One of the fires burning about 100 miles north of us has consumed 300,000 acres so far, and is not contained to any degree. Many evacuations. That's grassland. And we have a smoke plume from that fire overhead, since the winds have shifted due to the front. This is not extreme cold and tomorrow morning a few wintery showers are possible, maybe a rain snow mix but no accumulations likely. We could use a little precip. And after that it warms rapidly again. Good riddance to February, although it wasn't all that bad around here.
