The Six Rivers National Forest has received approximately 150 lightning strikes across the forest since Tuesday evening, resulting in multiple fires across the forest.
Just south of the Oregon border, the Diamond, Holiday, Kelly, and Prescott Fires along with other smaller fires in the area have all been grouped together into the Smith River Complex. The Holiday Fire is reported to be 500 acres, the Diamond Fire 30 acres, the Kelly Fire 200 acres, and the Prescott Fire approximately 193 acres. Combined these incidents total 923 acres. These numbers will fluctuate as more information is acquired.
This Smith River Complex remains under a full suppression strategy with rapid and aggressive initial attack operations. Air attack is being used to perform reconnaissance throughout the forest and additional resources have been ordered to support the incident.
inciweb.nwcg.gov/incident-information/casrf-smith-river-complex
Highway 199 Closed Near Oregon/California Border Due to Wildfire Activity
Highway 199 connects Humboldt County on the coast with Redding on Interstate 5, lots of semis from Oregon use it.
Currently 110° at Redding Municipal Airport, can’t imagine being a firefighter in those conditions!
We did have lightning & brief showers on the coast the other day, but this is the same general area people were claiming got DEWs.
Detailed Forecast
This Afternoon
Sunny and hot, with a high near 109. South wind around 9 mph.
Tonight
A 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms after 11pm. Patchy smoke between 9pm and 11pm. Increasing clouds, with a low around 80. South wind 5 to 9 mph becoming calm after midnight.
Thursday
A slight chance of showers before 10am, then a slight chance of thunderstorms after 5pm. Cloudy through mid morning, then gradual clearing and hot, with a high near 100. North northwest wind 5 to 10 mph becoming west southwest in the afternoon. Chance of precipitation is 20%.
forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?lat=40.5876&lon=-122.3925
Almost nothing on Twitter yet, ironically a fair amount of California firefighters went to help on Maui.
Most news reports are from yesterday, this guy seems to be highly rated for fire info:
h/t Auidacat