Holiday weekend temperatures will be the warmest across the northern Plains. Nearly 50 daily high-temperature records could be broken as temperatures surge into the 70s and 80s.
This heat, paired with the dry weather conditions, will allow for favorable wildfire conditions to persist: “Very warm weather will continue through the weekend along with near-critical fire weather conditions,” said the National Weather Service (NWS) office in Bismarck.
Meanwhile across the Southwest, highs will be 10 to 20 degrees above average. This will translate to actual temperatures peaking into the 90s across…