Daily News | A warning for the potential of ‘explosive fire growth’ is issued for all of New Jersey Sunday
Smoke billows from a brush fire in Lakewood, N.J., that shut down the Garden State Parkway on March 14, 2021.With winds gusting to 30 mph Sunday and the air bone-dry, the National Weather Service has posted aThe weather service said that conditions on a quite chilly last day of astronomical spring that would be “ripe for explosive fire growth.”
was issued for southeastern Pennsylvania, where similar weather conditions were expected – wind gusts to 30 mph and temperatures no higher than the low 40s, one of the coldest days of a remarkably warm winter.Jersey, however, was put under a higher state of alert because its burnable forest fuels are more vulnerable, said Alex Dodd, a lead meteorologist at the Mount Holly office.
March is an especially dangerous time for fires as leaves that retain moisture and, thus, could retard the spread of fire, haven’t yet matured. And officials say warmer winters
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