The fires in the state that aren’t yet contained include a 250,000 acre blaze burning in Hutchinson County.
A nuclear weapons facility in the Texas Panhandle said it had evacuated some staff Tuesday amid wind-fueled wildfires that covered thousands of acres and prompted the governor to issue a disaster declaration.
The Pantex Plant, which handles nuclear weapons, said it was monitoring the situation but that there was no fire on the plant site. All weapons were safe and unaffected, the facility said.
Up in Canada in northern Ontario here … we’ve had zero degree temperatures here for the past week … and a week period like this a month ago. It’s supposed to be -20, -30 traditionally here right now. And we also don’t have that much snow.
Warner temps, no snow will mean no spring water run off, no run off will mean the forest will get dry earlier, early dry forests will mean more forest fires.
The upcoming summer doesn’t look good up here.