24 FIRE: Good news early Monday morning as satellite hot spot detection (dots) are cooler than 24 hours ago with fewer detections across the edges of the fire where back burn operations were done last night. There has been excellent humidity recovery early this morning behind the Sunday morning cold front, too.
We’ll see some southeast breezes pick up in the late morning and then as a surface low develops southeast of Pueblo and northeast of Trinidad this afternoon we may get some northeast breezes after about 2pm. I think the computer model I’m showing you is about 7-9 mph too high on the gusts being displayed here.
I anticipate we’ll get some containment numbers at some point today. An incident management team arrives on the fire, fire fighters have been working on typing in their lines and will continue to do that through the morning, I’m hopeful our worst days of the 24 fire are behind us. Maybe by the end of the day we’ll get at least the pre-evacuations to come down, too. Wouldn’t that be great!
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