"Red Flag" Warning for NC mountains (new one on me).

Red Flag Warning
RED FLAG WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
929 AM EST THU NOV 10 2005

...RED FLAG WARNING TODAY FOR MUCH OF NORTH CAROLINA MOUNTAINS AND
RABUN COUNTY IN NORTHEAST GEORGIA...

.LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY AND A GUSTY NORTHEAST WIND WILL COMBINE
WITH LOW FUEL MOISTURE TO PRODUCE RED FLAG CONDITIONS IN MUCH OF
THE NORTH CAROLINA MOUNTAINS AND RABUN COUNTY IN NORTHEAST
GEORGIA.

GAZ010-NCZ033-048>053-058-059-062>065-102230-
/O.NEW.KGSP.FW.W.0001.051110T1429Z-051110T2300Z/
RABUN-AVERY-MADISON-YANCEY-MITCHELL-SWAIN-HAYWOOD-BUNCOMBE-GRAHAM-
NORTHERN JACKSON-MACON-SOUTHERN JACKSON-TRANSYLVANIA-HENDERSON-
929 AM EST THU NOV 10 2005

...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM EST THIS AFTERNOON...

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG HAS ISSUED
A RED FLAG WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM EST THIS
AFTERNOON.

RELATIVE HUMIDITY WILL FALL TO BETWEEN 10 AND 20 PERCENT THIS
AFTERNOON IN THE NORTH CAROLINA MOUNTAINS...AND RABUN COUNTY IN
NORTHEAST GEORGIA. MEANWHILE...THE WIND WILL INCREASE TO 25 TO 35
MPH...WITH GUSTS AS HIGH AS 50 MPH AT HIGH ELEVATIONS. THE LOWEST
RELATIVE HUMIDITY IS EXPECTED ABOVE 2500 FEET...WHERE THE HIGHEST
WIND IS ALSO EXPECTED TO OCCUR.

A RED FLAG WARNING MEANS THAT CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE
EITHER OCCURRING NOW...OR WILL SHORTLY. A COMBINATION OF STRONG
WINDS...LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY...LOW FUEL MOISTURE WILL CREATE
EXPLOSIVE FIRE GROWTH POTENTIAL.

:scared:

And it's very dry.

Feels like the Santa Ana winds that I know well.... and which always means trouble.

This Red Flag business is scary, though. I've got one way out of here and that is on a 2 mile stretch of winding gravel road in a heavily wooded mountain area.

in multiple directions.

i've seen many a canyon fire near Malibu and Topanga. Do you keep the brush cut back around the house?

Have you soaked your roof?

Of course, in Oklahoma, its interpreted to mean "Its a great day to burn trash."

It's hard to hold the artic winds at bay with a two-strand barbed-wire fence.

Anyway, I guess I won't cook out tonight.

It had been a cold day when I went up there on business, but by the time I drove back, an incredible wind and lightning storm was passing through from some wierd warm front. Torrential sideways downpour on the big highway, almost blowing tractor trailers right off the road. Scary stuff right outta nowhere.

gets going and the arsonists know to strike.

been howling around up on the mountain tops all day.

Hope the smokers thowing their butts out along the BRP are careful today.

I'm in Clemson, used to live in Greenville.

What do you think of Tony Trout?

--but then NC is experiencing severe drought conditions all over the state. Water restrictions and no burning.