Red Flag Warning - High Fire Danger

By Rod Hill on 2022-09-10

Red Flag Warning for high fire danger continues until 11:00 pm this evening (Saturday). East winds met the minimum threshold of the forecast in most locations yesterday. KGW.com has news of a brush fire that sparked near Estacada at Milo McIver State Park, prompting level 3 - go now evacuations. Air Quality is mostly in the moderate range this morning. You can see smoky haze over downtown Portland. Here are a few Friday peak east wind gust reports: Mt. Hood Meadows 43 mph, PDX 41, Salem 29, Hillsboro 36, McMinnville 30. Salem topped out at 93 degrees and Portland reached 89 on Friday.




Oregon Air Quality Saturday Morning. (Moderate quality reported north through Longview.)


Today's forecast calls for low to mid 90s most locations of the valley with east winds in the valley 5-25 mph with higher gusts to 40 near the gorge and other typical east wind areas. The dry east wind will again produce afternoon humidity levels between 10-20 %. Calmer, variable winds expected Sunday. -Rod
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