Wildland Fire Behavior

Description

The area will be El dorado, Ca zip code 95623
Write a 3-5 page Paper in MLA format using the National Weather Service (NWS) Area Forecast Discussion. To access current Area Forecast Discussions navigate to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) website (Links to an external site.) and enter your zip code in the “Find your local weather” box and click on “See full local forecast”. Los Angeles/Oxnard forecast office (Links to an external site.) area, click on the “Forecast Discussion” for access . Use the Area Forecast Discussion (Links to an external site.) as a reference to answer and expand on the following:

Imagine there is a wildfire burning in area and your area forecast discussion (Links to an external site.) is the current and predicted weather. Respond to the following questions in your paper, and describe how the predicted weather would effect the wildland fire behavior considering fuels and topography in the wildland fire environment surrounding your area:

What is the current synopsis?
What are the short term predictions? How are they expected to effect the behavior of your fire?
What are the long term predictions? How are they expected to effect the behavior of your fire?
Are there any aviation or marine predictions that would effect your fire?
Are there any current weather watches, warnings, or advisories? What are they, how will they effect your fire?
Based on the current and expected behavior of the fire, would this be a smoldering, creeping slow moving wildfire; running, crowning, fast moving wildfire; or something in between?
Use proper fire terminology throughout your paper, here is a link to the glossary of fire terms (Links to an external site.) for reference.