Weather

Current Conditions

Fire Weather Advisories

• Red Flag Warnings Map

Haines Index

• Daily Morning Haines Index Graphic

RAWS and Other Observations

• Meso West PNW Surface Weather Map (need to change the Network to RAWS once page is accessed)
• Meso West PNW Current Weather Summary

Satellite

• NWS 4 kilometer Infrared Image
• NWS 4 Kilometer Water Vapor Image
• NWS 1 Kilometer Visible Image (daytime only)
• UW Hemispheric Infrared Loop

Radar

• Northwestern US Radar Loop
• USA Radar Loop

Lightning

• Vaisala Inc
• Accuweather Inc
• 2018 Lightning Database

National Weather Service Fire Weather

• Geographical Fire Weather Forecast
• Western Region Fire Weather Page
• Clickable map of Pacific NW Fire Weather Forecasts and Discussion

FARSITE Weather Data Generators

• NWS FARSITE Data Acquisition (348K)
• FARSITE Weather Data Generator (756K)

Pacific NW Fire Weather Operating Plan

• 2019 Fire Weather Operating Plan
• 2019 Fire Weather Operating Plan

Snow/Precipitation Data

• NOHRSC snowpack
• NWRFC snowpack
• NWRFC 3 day precipitation forecasts
• NRCS

Climatology/Drought

• Western Region Climate Center
• United States Climatologies
• Climate, Ecosystem and Fire Applications (CEFA)
• Climate Mapping with Prism
• Western U.S. Precipitation Percentage of Normal for Year
• Extreme Weather and Climate Events
• RAWS USA Climatology
• Palmer Drought Severity Index (PDSI)
• Keetch-Byrum Drought Index (KBDI)
• Drought Monitor
• Standardized Precipitation Index (SPI)

Smoke Monitoring

• Oregon Department of Forestry
• Washington Department of Natural Resources (WADNR)
• Interagency Real Time Smoke Monitoring

Weather Maps

• UCAR Current Atmospheric Soundings
• NW Surface Weather Plot
• Morning Haines Index map
• National Gridded Forecast Database

Weather Forecast Models

• MM5 of University of Washington
• NCEP Loops Page
• Nexlab - College of DuPage
• MeteoStar

Other

• Critical Fire Weather Patterns of the US  (4.0 MB)
• Critical Fire Weather Patterns Webcast Part 1 (25 MB)
• Critical Fire Weather Patterns Webcast Part 2 (19 MB)
• Critical Fire Weather Patterns Webcast Part 3 (23 MB)
• Critical Fire Weather Patterns Webcast Part 4 (31 MB)
• Taking Good Weather Observations  (166 KB)