The Mendocino Voice | Mendocino County, CA (https://mendovoice.com/tag/nws/)
The National Weather Service has issued a Red Flag Warning and Fire Weather Watch for parts of the North Coast interior Friday due to high heat expected during thunderstorms.
A cooling center will be opened at the Ukiah Conference Center.
Yet another intense heatwave is bearing down on Northern California, this one coming down from the Pacific Northwest, rather than up from the Southwest — expect triple digit temps. Climate scientists agree that these worsening heatwaves are climate change driven.
A major heatwave is expected just in time for the official start of summer, with temperatures around 107 degrees in Ukiah and 112 in Redding.
Fire weather conditions are present across Northern California, with high, dry winds, and hot temperatures, but meteorologists at the National Weather Services (NWS) office in Eureka say that most of Mendocino County remains green enough to not yet merit a formal declaration of a red flag warning.
