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Bay Area under Red Flag Warning, new storms could worsen fires

As of Sunday afternoon, the Bay Area is under a Red Flag Warning, meaning the kind of dry lightning that started the recent rash of wildfires could repeat, accompanied by gusty winds.

All weekend, firefighters have made inroads battling the assortment of fires in the region, benefiting from the assistance of firefighters from other states and countries. The predicted weather stands to reverse this progress, with a band of monsoon moisture progressing northward from the south during Sunday daytime. Come late afternoon, we can expect thunderstorms which might continue till Monday morning. The storms aren’t expected to produce enough rainfall to have a positive impact on the fires. But dry lightning will be striking throughout, potentially sparking new blazes.

A bigger problem is the wind: gusts moving at 40-60 miles per hour have the potential to make the fires spread. 

An alert on the City of Milpitas’ website reads in part: “This situation is extremely dangerous: please monitor media, social media and your own conditions throughout the day and overnight.”

No evacuation watches, warnings, or orders have been initiated inside of Milpitas’ city limits—but residents in unincorporated areas to the east and south of Ed Levin Park were placed under an evacuation order last week. 

“Fires are already unpredictable,” said Milpitas Fire Chief Brian Sherrard in an interview with The Beat on Friday, “and weather plays a really big role.”

Sherrard later added, “Shifting winds and spot fires could change the pattern.”

Now two days later, shifting winds could be on the way.

 

 

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Eric Shapiro
Eric Shapiro
Eric Shapiro is a writer, filmmaker, and journalist. He wrote the screenplay for Macho, the forthcoming Randy Savage biopic now in co-production with Kenan Thompson’s Artists for Artists, Paul Coy Allen’s Midas Entertainment, and Range Media Partners. His novella It’s Only Temporary was named one of Nightmare Magazine’s “100 Best Horror Novels of All Time,” and he has won both a Fade In Award for screenwriting and a California Journalism Award. As a filmmaker, his work has won awards at Fantasia and Shriekfest, earned the endorsement of PETA, and screened at Fantastic Fest. His feature films Horrorbuku, Intrusive, and Rule of 3 are slated to appear as special episodes in the upcoming revival of USA’s Up All Night on Kings of Horror. He is also co-owner and editor of The Milpitas Beat, winner of Golden Quill and John Swett Awards.

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