{"id":7813,"date":"2022-04-28T13:08:58","date_gmt":"2022-04-28T17:08:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/?p=7813"},"modified":"2022-04-28T13:09:16","modified_gmt":"2022-04-28T17:09:16","slug":"red-flag-warning-fire-watch-in-effect-thursday-and-friday-due-to-high-winds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/2022\/04\/red-flag-warning-fire-watch-in-effect-thursday-and-friday-due-to-high-winds\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Red Flag&#8217; Warning, Fire Watch in Effect Thursday and Friday Due to High Winds"},"content":{"rendered":"[videopress 3ooskFHs]\n<p>Ocean County was under a rare \u201cred flag\u201d warning Thursday and a fire watch has already been issued for Friday by the National Weather Service, the agency announced.\u00a0<em> (The video above, embedded in this story, shows clouds and wind moving in during a stunning sunset on the bay Wednesday night.)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The red flag warning went into effect at 11 a.m. Thursday and will remain until 10 p.m. A red flag warning means that \u201ccritical fire weather conditions are either occurring now, or will shortly due to a combination of strong winds, low relative humidity, and dry fuels. Any fires that develop may quickly get out of control and become difficult to contain,\u201d according to the NWS.<\/p>\n<p>The fire watch is in effect from 9 a.m. to 10 p.m. Friday. A fire weather watch means that \u201ccritical fire weather conditions are forecast to occur due to a combination of strong winds, low relative humidities, and dry fuels.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The NWS called for northwest 15 to 20 mph with gusts up to 35 m.p.h. Thursday and Friday, with humidity at a critically-low 17 percent. There is an increased risk for rapid wildfire growth and spread. Prescribed burns may get out of control, the NWS said.<\/p>\n<p>For Friday, the fire watch could turn into a red flag warning.<\/p>\n<p>Winds will subside Saturday, under sunny skies and a high of 57 degrees, the NWS said. Winds will move about 10 m.p.h. to begin the weekend.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fb-share-button fcbkbttn_large_button \" data-href=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/2022\/04\/red-flag-warning-fire-watch-in-effect-thursday-and-friday-due-to-high-winds\/\" data-type=\"button_count\" data-size=\"large\"><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[videopress 3ooskFHs] Ocean County was under a rare \u201cred flag\u201d warning Thursday and a fire watch has already been issued for Friday by the National Weather Service, the agency announced.\u00a0 (The video above, embedded in this story, shows clouds and wind moving in during a stunning sunset on the bay Wednesday night.) The red flag [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7525,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[150],"tags":[1080,1580],"class_list":["post-7813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-environment-weather","tag-featured","tag-fire-watch"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/nj_controlled_burn_022822_284-scaled.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7813\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}