By We may have had no wind yesterday, but it seldom leaves us alone for long. Like a good big brother, it always returns to pummel you. 😉
Update: at 4 p.m., there was a fire at the city limits on the east side of town.
Late afternoon update from The Gazette: Fire consuming cars, pole barn.
Lyon, Anderson and Coffey Counties:
STRONG GUSTY WINDS AND LOW HUMIDITIES ACROSS PORTIONS OF EAST
CENTRAL KANSAS.
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TOPEKA HAS ISSUED A RED FLAG
WARNING…WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM CST THIS AFTERNOON.
VERY LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITIES OF LESS THAN 20 PERCENT COMBINED WITH SOUTHERLY SUSTAINED WINDS OF 15 TO 20 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 25 MPH WILL PRODUCE DANGEROUS CONDITIONS FOR THE SPREADING OF FIRES DURING THE AFTERNOON HOURS.
A RED FLAG WARNING MEANS THAT CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS
ARE EITHER OCCURRING NOW…OR WILL SHORTLY. A COMBINATION OF DRY
FUELS…STRONG WINDS…LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY…AND WARM
TEMPERATURES WILL CREATE EXPLOSIVE FIRE GROWTH POTENTIAL.
You know, before I lived here, I never saw a lawn catch fire. The first lawn I saw on fire was my own. The neighbor had a fire. i ran outside and saw fire creeping across our grass towards our house. PANIC PANIC PANIC. I was out there in my nightgown trying to stop the flames, trying to shovel mud, fell down………… Larry worked on it, and saved both our house and the neighbor’s chicken coop. The fire dept showed up and took care of it.
But it still boggles my mind that a lawn can catch fire.
Many fires are probably started by a cigarette tossed out of a car window.