{"id":45796,"date":"2020-05-07T12:43:00","date_gmt":"2020-05-07T19:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/wind-warm-temperatures-raise-weekend-wildfire-risk\/"},"modified":"2020-05-07T12:43:00","modified_gmt":"2020-05-07T19:43:00","slug":"wind-warm-temperatures-raise-weekend-wildfire-risk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/wind-warm-temperatures-raise-weekend-wildfire-risk\/","title":{"rendered":"Wind, warm temperatures raise weekend wildfire risk"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hot and dry weather is predicted for Mother’s Day weekend (May 9-10), presenting an elevated risk for wildfires across the state.<\/p>\n

The Washington State Department of Natural Resources has already responded to 230 wildfires this year. Of those, 120 were caused by people burning debris.<\/p>\n

Winds this weekend could see gusts of up to 25 mph and temperatures are expected to reach the high 70s and mid-80s. The greatest effects will likely be seen on the western slopes of the Cascades. In areas with grasses, fires will burn faster and hotter with high winds.<\/p>\n

Temperatures should cool next week. The DNR is asking residents to not burn through the weekend.<\/p>\n

Campfires, vehicles and equipment like chainsaws should be monitored so they don’t start fires.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Temperatures could reach the mid-80s, with gusts of wind up to 25 mph. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":45797,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,4,24],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-45796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-home2","category-news","category-northwest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45796"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45796\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45796"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=45796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}