High Park Firefighting Efforts
News Item Posted: 2012-06-17
In support of the firefighting efforts for the High Park fire, the NWS IMET (Incident Meteorologist) at the Incident Command Center is using the FX-Net system developed by CIRA to access real-time NOAA weather data and experimental forecast models from NOAA and the US Forest Service. Here is an example of an FX-Net screen showing fire weather related data:

Information about how wildfires and weather influence each other is provided by Sher Schranz in this Denver Post article.
