SMOKY SKIES: A surprisingly thick plume of smoke has arrived in the Houston area from a large complex of wildfires southwest of Fort Worth.
A surprisingly thick plume of smoke has arrived in the Houston area from a large complex of wildfires southwest of Fort Worth. Nearly 40,000 acres of brush and grassland is burning and is uncontained. It looks like the smoke plume became larger overnight and was blown directly at us by dry, breezy northwest winds.Houston residents woke up to smoky, hazy skies on Friday morning due to wildfires burning in north central Texas.
Several wildfires have merged to form what fire officials call a "complex" that was burning near Eastland, about 120 miles west of Dallas. Nearly 40,000 acres of brush and grassland are burning and are uncontained. It looks like the smoke plume became larger overnight and was blown directly at the Houston-area by dry, breezy northwest winds.
According to the National Weather Service, the smoky conditions in Houston will improve through the afternoon on Friday, but may return at night.
Other smaller fires were burning throughout other areas of Texas, and Thursday’s low humidity and high winds created an ideal scenario for the blazes to quickly grow out of control. Texas A&M Forest Service had warned of a wildfire outbreak this week because of the forecast.
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