Taking a look at today’s (Friday, May 9th) forecasted Fire Danger map, we’re seeing the return of High to Extreme risk in the Slave Lake, Lac La Biche, and Edmonton areas. Parts this region saw some rain yesterday that helped with fire containment efforts, but much more rain, and even snow, fell to the west. This has led to Whitecourt, Edson, and into the Rockies staying in the Low to Moderate Risk for today.
We could see some scattered pop-up showers across Northern Alberta today with low relative humidity values across the province. Northern and Central Alberta can expect high temperatures in the upper teens today while Southern Alberta will get up to the mid 20s.
Winds will continue to play a factor in fire suppression in Central and Southern Alberta today, with southerly and southwesterly gusts up to 40km/h. It’s the warm and dry conditions combined with the persistent winds which keeps everything east of the QE2 under Extreme fire risk.
We’re still seeing some much-needed rainfall to start next week on weather models so it appears that this map will have a lot more blue and green on Monday.
– Alannah
