Weather impacting the fire fight with Garnet Fire

FRESNO COUNTY, Calif. (KFSN) -- Lightning and rainfall reached the Central Valley connected Tuesday. The progressive upwind comes arsenic much than 1,400 firefighters proceed to conflict the Garnet Fire.

SkyView 30 drone video shows the billowing fume from the blaze connected Tuesday afternoon.

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Action News Chief Meteorologist Kevin Musso said this benignant of clime is antithetic for Central California.

"This is the summertime monsoon. It comes from the other direction. It has immoderate tropical regions, it tends to marque things consciousness benignant of muggy, and we're not utilized to that," said Musso.

And it's these existent upwind conditions that are making the firefight hard for crews.

"Gusty, erratic winds are decidedly a situation for firefighters. It tin propulsion the occurrence successful aggregate antithetic directions astatine antithetic speeds. It makes warring a occurrence reasonably unpredictable astatine times," said Patterson.

Dan Patterson, a Fire Behavior Analyst with the U.S. Forest Service, applies the upwind predictions with however firefighters tin champion combat the Garnet blaze.

He said connected apical of the forecast, the mountainous terrain has created challenges for firefighters, doing each they tin to get containment of the inferno.

"Out here, it's precise rugged, steep topography. And I perceive its antithetic substance specified arsenic timber, brushwood and grass. All of those respond differently, nether antithetic conditions. So basically, the incoming storms that we've been seeing, these fronts, these outflow winds, they're expanding astir of the occurrence behaviour crossed the landscape," said Patterson.

And the readying Patterson does is important. On apical of each these galore obstacles, helium said the biggest interest and situation is making definite his readying keeps those connected the beforehand lines safe.

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