An excessive heat warning will be in effect for North Texas from noon Thursday to 9 p.m. Friday, the weather service said.
“It’s really going to be the same as it was before the cold front,” he said.Grasses as well are very dry, he added, creating greater potential for fires to spark. Wind speeds, however, will be light tomorrow, he said, but the fire danger will pick up with stronger gusts., including Dallas, Denton and Tarrant, in response to widespread wildfire activity throughout the state. The declaration allows counties to access state resources when fighting wildfires.
The Texas A&M Forest Service has established a Level 4 preparedness level, the second-highest tier. From June to Wednesday, the agency has responded to around 430 fires that have burned a total of about 50,000 acres combined. The high temperatures this week prompted the Electric Reliability Council of Texas, the state’s grid operator, to issue a weather watch until Friday. The agency toldon Wednesday that the grid is “currently operating under normal conditions and it expects adequate supply to meet demand.”Unofficial records from the agency show demand peaked at 85,435 megawatts on Aug. 10. Current forecasts show the record could be broken on Saturday with demand potentially reaching a little over 86,000 megawatts.
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