Wildfire Kern County, Critical Fire Weather Antelope Valley

Fire Weather: Very Low Relative Humidity readings across the Antelope Valley yesterday and today, with gusty winds up to 35 MPH..Increasing temperatures today hitting triple digit mark for CA Zone 259. Potential for some thunderstorm activity on Tuesday with the potential for a few lightning ignitions possible. These storms are predicted to have some moisture associated with them so some wetting rain is possible Tuesday- Wednesday -Thursday and their is always the posssibility of a flash flood in the creek areas.

Kern County mountains are also seeing a warming and drying trend with an intial attack wildfire in the Grapevine area. Preliminary reports that this fire should be contained at approximately 100 acres of grass, near Digier Canyon north of Fort Tejon on the west side of Interstate 5. Moderate rate of spread, slope driven in fine continuos 1 hour fuels. Air tankers and crews were effective, no long range spotting observed. Kern County, Cal Fire and Forest Service working this fire, a strike team for structure protection was in place at 6 pm last night in Digier Canyon.