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California, the Great Basin and the Rockies face critical fire weather danger

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Janice Dean, Fox News
Published Aug. 20, 2020, 5:10 p.m. ET
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A home burns in Vacaville, California during the LNU Lightning Complex fire on August 19, 2020.
A home burns in Vacaville, California during the LNU Lightning Complex fire yesterday.Getty Images
A fire truck drives through flames as the Hennessey fire continues to rage out of control near Lake Berryessa in Napa, California on August 18, 2020.
A fire truck drives through flames as the Hennessey fire continues to rage out of control near Lake Berryessa in Napa, California on Tuesday.Getty Images
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In this long exposure photograph, flames set ablaze both sides of a segment of Lake Berryessa during the Hennessey fire in the Spanish Flat area of Napa, California.
In this long exposure photograph, flames set ablaze both sides of a segment of Lake Berryessa during the Hennessey fire in the Spanish Flat area of Napa, California.Getty Images
This NASA Earth Observatory photo released August 20, 2020 shows on August 19, 2020, what the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASAs Terra satellite captured in this natural-color image, as wildfires moving across northern California, with enormous smoke plumes smothered cities and towns in the San Joaquin Valley and San Francisco Bay area.
This NASA Earth Observatory photo released today shows yesterday, what the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASAs Terra satellite captured in this natural-color image, as wildfires moving across northern California, with enormous smoke plumes smothered cities and towns in the San Joaquin Valley and San Francisco Bay area. NASA Earth Observatory/AFP via G
Firefighters attempt to extinguish the Hennessey Fire near Vacaville, California, USA.
Firefighters attempt to extinguish the Hennessey Fire near Vacaville, California, USA.EPA
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Critical fire weather danger continues for parts of California, the Great Basin and the Rockies with heat, dry conditions and the risk of dry thunderstorms producing lightning and not a lot of rainfall. Some areas of California and Colorado are dealing with poor air quality due to the ongoing wildfires in the region. The excessive heat will start to lessen a bit, but will still be dangerous over the Southwest.

Scattered showers and thunderstorms will persist over the Southeast over the next few days with the risk of locally heavy rain in some spots and flash flooding.

The tropics are being watched closely, with a disturbance in the central Caribbean that is gradually becoming more organized. A tropical depression is likely to form in the next couple of days as it moves across the northwest Caribbean toward the Yucatán Peninsula.

A tropical depression has formed east of the Lesser Antilles and is forecast to track near Puerto Rico by Saturday. The path of this storm will have to be closely monitored as it potentially will impact Florida early next week.

“South Florida is still in the forecast cone of Depression 13, but there is still high uncertainty to determine what, if any, impacts this system may have on South Florida at this time,” the National Weather Service Miami tweeted Thursday.

The tropical depression formed Wednesday in the waters of the tropical central Atlantic.

A third disturbance is about to emerge from Africa and will have the opportunity to develop this weekend or early next week.

In the East Pacific just offshore from Cabo San Lucas is a weakening Hurricane Genevieve. Cabo is susceptible to hurricane-force wind gusts, with conditions improving Thursday afternoon.