9:45 p.m. Discussion

From Chief Meteorologist Craig Carnesi...

The National Weather Service in Norman, OK has now issued a Fire Weather Watch for Knox County for Sunday, New Year's Day.

We now have four counties under a Fire Weather Watch for New Year's Day; Knox, Stephens, Eastland and Comanche.

A fire weather watch, as defined by the National Weather Service, means that critical fire weather conditions are forecasted to occur.

As mentioned in previous posts, Sunday looks to be a potentially very dangerous day with strong, gusty winds, similar to this past Tuesday afternoon.

Here's a map we use in the KRBC weather center provided by the Texas Forest Service. This is their 5-day forecast for fire danger across the Lonestar State:
http://webgis.tamu.edu/tfs/rawsd/raws5d.png