Fire Weather Index

John Roads and Shyh-Chin Chen, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UCSD

This image shows the Fire Weather Index for October 26, 1993, during the fire-storms which ravaged areas all along southern California. Fire Weather Index is computed using surface humidity, temperature and wind speed and is an indication of the weather-related fire danger.

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