Friday is the fifth consecutive day with a Red Flag Warning in the Denver metro area. Worsening drought is playing no small part in the daily threat for wildfires.
The weekly drought monitor that was released on Thursday showed a slight increase in the area of Colorado experiencing at least moderate drought. It’s now about 92% instead of about 91% a week ago. The far more troubling find was that the percentage of the state experiencing at least severe drought jumped from 47% a week ago to 57% this week.
The significant drought means there is plenty of dry fuel to push fire danger to a critical level again on Friday. Denver and the Front Range plus most of the Eastern Plains and the southern mountains are under a Red Flag Warning from 11 a.m. until 8 p.m.
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