Elevated fire danger due to breezy, dry conditions

CHICOPEE, Mass. (WWLP) – An elevated risk of fires is issued for Friday due to low humidity and breezy conditions across Massachusetts.

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Fire weather, as meteorologists call it, is when the weather has been dry for a long time, which means there is a lot of dry vegetation to act as fuel to fires. Also when the humidity is very low, like it has been, and winds are breezy, brush fires can ignite and spread much faster. That fast-spreading makes the fire much harder to contain.

Hampden, Hampshire, and Franklin Counties have an elevated fire weather alert due to the combination of relative humidity of around 30 percent, and northerly winds of around 10 mph.

It will be a sunny day with high temperatures in the low to mid-60s.

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