Around 10 million people remain under fire alerts in an area that extends from South Dakota to Texas and Arizona on Sunday afternoon.
It is expected that wind bursts up to 30-40 mph, combined with warm temperatures, dry vegetation and relative humidity values as low as 5%, create dangerous conditions for the development of new fires. San Antonio, Texas; Colorado Springs, Colorado; Santa Fe, New Mexico; and Tucson, Arizona, are among areas at risk.
On Sunday afternoon it will be relatively winding through the plains due to a cold front, with 12 million under wind alerts during the night. Dallas and Waco, Texas and Springfield, Missouri, are included in these alerts, since some bursts can exceed 40-50 mph.
Even so, temperatures through the plains, as well as west and southwest, will continue 10 to 25 degrees above the average Sunday late. The maximums will reach the 80s and 100, with some temperature records possibly broken in Dallas, Yellow and Lubbock, Texas and Tucson, Arizona.
As a cold front extends through the plains, temperatures will be reduced to the average at the beginning of the work week throughout the country’s heart. The afternoon temperatures will still be kept from 10 to 20 degrees above the average throughout the west, southwest and southeast. Potential records could be informed on Sunday in San Antonio and Houston, Texas, and Asheville, North Carolina.
The cold front will bring the opportunity for scattered showers to the upper west and the big lakes on Sunday afternoon during the night. A snow transition is anticipated for northern Minnesota and the upper Peninsula of Michigan. On Monday, 1 to 3 inches of snow will be possible, with local quantities above 6 inches.
There is no severe climate or floods on Sunday, but as the front progresses east on Monday, there is a slight risk of severe climate throughout the Ohio Valley. Around 9 million people run the risk of damaging the wind, the a quarter of a room of size and a tornado or two. The risk area includes Columbus and Cincinnati, Ohio; Pittsburgh; and Lexington, Kentucky, where storms can develop Monday afternoon until night.
