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Folks we are under a new Red Flag Weather Advisory Warning.

Here is the copy of my flash email I just got:

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SACRAMENTO CA
330 PM PST THU JUL 11 2002

...A RED FLAG WARNING HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR TONIGHT INTO EARLY FRIDAY
FOR THE SOUTHERN PART OF THE SACRAMENTO VALLEY AND DELTA REGION AS
WELL AS FOR THE SAN MATEO-SANTA CRUZ...SANTA CLARA UNITS...THE EAST
BAY HILLS AND THE SONOMA-LAKE NAPA UNITS...

...A RED FLAG WARNING IS EXTENDED FOR TONIGHT INTO EARLY FRIDAY
MORNING FOR THE WEST SLOPES OF THE NORTHERN SIERRA NEVADA AND
ADJACENT FOOTHILLS. THIS INCLUDES THE TAHOE AND ELDORADO NATIONAL
FORESTS AND THE NEVADA-YUBA-PLACER AND AMADOR-ELDORADO CDF RANGER
UNITS...

THIS INCLUDES FIRE WEATHER ZONES 535...536...538...541...546 THRU
550...552 THRU 554...558..559..561...562 THRU 564 AND 566.

STRONG HIGH PRESSURE ACROSS NEVADA WILL PRODUCE A SOUTHEASTERLY FLOW
OF UNSTABLE AIR. THERE HAVE ALREADY BEEN A FEW DRY LIGHTNING STRIKES
ACROSS THE SIERRA. IN ADDITION...A STRONG UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE
WILL DRIFT UP FROM SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA OVERNIGHT. THESE FEATURES
WILL ALL COMBINE TO PRODUCE SCATTERED DRY THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE
SIERRA MOUNTAINS AND FOOTHILLS...THE SOUTHERN SACRAMENTO VALLEY AND
DELTA REGION...AS WELL AS MUCH OF THE BAY AREA.

BY FRIDAY AFTERNOON MOST OF THIS MOISTURE SHOULD MOVE NORTH OF THE
AREA...WITH ONLY A FEW LINGERING STORMS ACROSS THE HIGH SIERRA BY
FRIDAY AFTERNOON. THESE STORMS SHOULD BE ACCOMPANIED BY SOME
PRECIPITATION BY THEN.

PLEASE ADVISE THE APPROPRIATE OFFICIALS AND FIRE CREWS IN THE FIELD
OF THIS RED FLAG WARNING.

BASIL

Great! I had planned to drive up to the Yuba to try my new Spey Rod out.

It is best not to be standing in a River, waiving 15 foot of Graphite Fly Rod in a lightening storm. One bolt could power a small town for a day and fry your haveros for eternity.

Please pass this warning to all N. Californians you know.

It should be pinged on the enviral list. Dry lightening storms in enviral tinder box forests is a nightmare.

"Great! I had planned to drive up to the Yuba to try my new Spey Rod out."

I feel your pain. ;^)

Seriously, it definitely is a tinderbox out there and here's hoping nothing happens. *fingers crossed*.

A tropical front is moving over Northern Cal. Could bring lots of BAD BAD Lightning to the mountains. I remember flying from SF to Eureka one night when there were many many fires burning. You could see them from the coast to Mt Lassen. This was in the late 80s.