Fire weather worsens as heat wave spreads across southern US this week
CNN
An early season heat wave will build across the southern tier of the United States, creating "unstable conditions" for wildfires and forcing some residents to conserve power usage.
"We are expecting above normal temperatures and what that means for fires is generally unstable conditions," Todd Shoemake, a meteorologist at the National Weather Service (NWS) office in Albuquerque, New Mexico, told CNN. "So if you do start to see fire growth, a lot of times it can become pretty explosive and really rapidly gaining in power and heat."
A ridge of high pressure will build across the Southwest this weekend, allowing for record-breaking heat to settle in.
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