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Cool Is Out For The Summer, Heat Wave Coming

Jackets in June – not typical for the North State.

An extremely low dip in the jet stream on the northeast pacific and northwest coast has pushed some pretty cold air inland – creating temperatures well below normal for this time of year. So chilly in fact, those traveling to Lassen Park this week may have seen snow falling at its highest elevations – and that just a few days before the summer solstice.

RobElvington, morning meteorologist at KRCR-TV, said however this rarity is pretty much over. A warming trend is on the way and we’ll be back to hot weather by the first day of summer Monday, he said. How hot it will be though, all depends on a big high pressure system in the desert southwest.

“And the question is how close it gets to central and northern California. The closer it gets to us the bigger the heat wave,” Elvington said.

By Tuesday and Wednesday the North State will be looking at temperatures that are anywhere from 10 to 20 degrees above average, Elvington said. Typical inland hotspots will be warming up to triple digits with Redding’s high on Tuesday possibly getting up to 110 degrees, he said.

In terms of the fire outlook next week, the danger so far looks relatively low, Elvington said. This week’s cool temperatures combined with high humidity and a little moisture from some widespread rain has likely dampened fire fuels, which take time to dry out, he said.

“So the fire danger it will start to go up a little bit by early next week, but likely not as high as what we saw this past weekend because it had been dry and then we had our typical gusty winds come in,” Elvington said.

Last weekend a handful of fires erupted in the North State. Besides one larger fire in Siskiyou County most were contained at fairly small sizes. The larger fire in Western Siskiyou is still burning. It’s currently 2,963 acres in size and 25 percent contained

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