Low humidity and wind gusts could cause any fire that\u2019s ignited to spread Saturday in the Lehigh Valley.<\/p>\n
The National Weather Service in Mount Holly, New Jersey, said humidity values will drop 25-35% in the afternoon, and there could be winds with gusts of up to 20-25 mph. Those conditions, combined with continued drying of fine fuels, could support the \u201crapid spread\u201d of any fires.<\/p>\n
Conditions should improve during the evening. Forecasters discourage any outdoor burning.<\/p>\n
Lower Mount Bethel Township, Weisenberg Township and Lynn Township are under burn bans Saturday.<\/p>\n
The Department of Conservation and Natural Resources said Lehigh, Northampton, Carbon, Monroe, Berks, Bucks, Schuylkill and Montgomery counties are under a high risk of wildfire danger Saturday. Under that risk, fires could spread rapidly and would be hard to control, the DCNR said.<\/p>\n
Saturday marked the second time this week that the weather service issued a special weather statement warning of increased fire risk. A similar statement was issued Thursday.<\/p>\n
The rest of the weekend should be in the 60s and clear. Temperatures are expected to rise into the 80s next week.<\/p>\n
Here is the extended forecast from the National Weather Service:<\/p>\n
Sunday: Increasing clouds, with a high near 63. Calm wind becoming south around 5 mph in the afternoon.<\/p>\n
Monday: A slight chance of showers after 2 p.m. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 77. Southwest wind 5 to 15 mph. Chance of precipitation is 20%.<\/p>\n
Tuesday: Partly sunny, with a high near 82.<\/p>\n
Wednesday: Partly sunny, with a high near 86.<\/p>\n
Thursday: Partly sunny, with a high near 86.<\/p>\n
Friday: Partly sunny, with a high near 78.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Low humidity and wind gusts could cause any fire that\u2019s ignited to spread Saturday in the Lehigh Valley.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":27682,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120,182,139,432,1133],"class_list":["post-163376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-top-stories-tmc","tag-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163376\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}