How to resolve AdBlock issue? LAKE COUNTY, Calif. — The National Weather Service has issued a red flag warning for Monday and a fire weather watch for Tuesday due to concerns about potential fire weather conditions.
The red flag warning for northern Lake County and a portion of Northern California will be in effect from 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. Monday, with a fire weather watch to be in effect the same hours on Tuesday.
A red flag warning means that critical fire weather conditions — a combination of strong winds, low relative humidity and warm temperatures — are expected to occur and could contribute to extreme fire weather, the National Weather Service reported.
Forecasters were prompted to issue both the warning and the watch due to the potential for scattered dry lightning on Monday and Tuesday afternoon — and slighter chances of isolated thunderstorms overnight Monday into Tuesday — across the region’s interior mountains.
“A pulse of moisture moving up the Central Valley combined with very hot and dry surface conditions and moderate easterly winds will combine to create scattered dry thunderstorms over the interior mountains,” the National Weather Service forecast explained. “Any storms that do form will likely produce wetting rain in the cores but lightning is possible far from these cores in areas that will remain dry.”
The forecast also calls for gusty and erratic outflow winds — which are described as the cool winds that spread out along the ground from a thunderstorm as the air that’s been cooled by the rain descends — are possible, with speeds of up to 50 miles per hour.
In addition to the potential for thunderstorms, this week will be notable for temperatures in the high 90s during the day and mid 60s at night. Temperatures are forecast to drop into the mid 80s during the day and mid 50s at night by the weekend.
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