So: It may not be the wildfire-eliminating stormageddon of the century, but the NWS Woodley Island weather-watchers are confirming that today’s sweltering mugginess will in fact lead to water falling from the sky this evening.
Check it by the numbers over at LoCO Weather:
TONIGHT
- Eureka: 100% chance of rain
- Fortuna: 100% chance of rain
- Redway: 90% chance of rain
- Hoopa: 100% chance of rain
TOMORROW DAYTIME
- Eureka: 50% chance of rain
- Fortuna: 50% chance of rain
- Redway: 40% chance of rain
- Hoopa: 50% chance of rain
TOMORROW EVENING
- Eureka: 20% chance of rain
- Fortuna: 20% chance of rain
- Redway: No rain forecast
- Hoopa: No rain forecast
SUNDAY
- Some possibilities of rain, here and there.
One extra-special nice thing about this li’l soaking we’re going to get is that nowhere does the NWS mention the possibility of lightning storms, which could start the whole fiery shitshow of an August we’ve had all over again.
Incident managers of the various Trinity County fire complexes have taken notice of the impending weather — see the current situation report from the 65,000-acre River Complex, the 29,000-acre South Complex and the 37,000-acre Route and Mad River Complexes — and while they all mention that the less-than-an-inch amount of rain they’re expecting will be nice, they don’t seem to see it as a game-changer. The official containment date at the River Complex, for example, has held steady at October 1 for several weeks now.
Below: Full graphical forecast with projected amounts of rainfall throughout the region, between now and tomorrow afternoon:
Graphic: National Weather Service, Woodley Island Office
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