Low pressure developing across the central Rockies Wednesday will causewinds to increase, which will result in a renewed fire threat from southernArizona to western Texas. The flow of winds around low pressure will also dragin a very dry air mass with relative humidities falling below 20%, while windgusts top 30 mph. At the same time, temperatures will be quite warm with highsranging from the low 70s in southern New Mexico to the low 80s in southwesternTexas. This will increase the threat of quickly spreading fires. Later in theday, the fire threat will shift into far western Oklahoma as dry, gusty breezesarrive from the west.Story by AccuWeather.com Meteorologist Justin Povick
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