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The good news is the storm front passing through doesn't appear to have too much dry lightning. That works in our favor, but the winds won't help existing fires.

Arnold Hartigan

Just because a county may drop its burn ban, though, doesn't mean that all risk of escaped fires is gone and that residents can throw all caution to the wind with their outdoor burning. With dry weather and gusty winds predicted for most of the week, the risk of grass fires will likely grow with every day that passes without rain.

So we don't have proof, but we have a pretty good idea that this particular storm might be the storm that's associated with the lightning that we're detecting.

We were watching to make sure nothing pops up. The winds - you never know what they're going to do. Winds can actually push fires back down the hill.

We have the hottest, driest weather in perhaps 50 years; we have thousands of lightning strikes an hour; we have 300 new fires every day in the West, largely because of lightning strikes,

Storms like these can often do more harm than good. You can get lightning outside of the range of the thunderstorms and that could spark fires.

With the gusty winds, low humidity and all the hard freezes lately, it's created an abundant amount of dry, dead fuels. Our big concern is that (debris) fires are going to get away from people and the winds will pick them up and they'll race across the brush.

That doesn't mean it will blow tropical storm force winds for six hours or 12 hours. It could be one minute or three, but it means if you have awnings that can't withstand tropical force winds, you should take them down.

I'm always cautious to downplay range fires, because if it's your ranch building or grazing allotment that got burned up it's pretty important. But timber fires require a lot more people, equipment, time and money to put out, and so far even when we've had lightning ignition, we didn't get the large fire initiation.

My overall feeling is that this group has been massively out of favor for the last four years, but we've actually had a lot of good news in the last couple of months that should bring them into favor.

Sometimes it works in your favor, sometimes it doesn't.

In addition we had a whole bunch of lightning and thunder. That's pretty rare, and any time you get that with a winter storm it indicates just how intense the storm is.

The fishing up here almost always gets better after a storm like that. And that's got a lot to do with the pressure changes. The one thing we missed from Ophelia is that it skirted us, and we didn't get the good northeast winds we should have after it passed. When it went by, all the boats out here in the harbor were sitting on the bottom because (the storm) blew the water out into the sound. But we didn't get the cooler air in here behind it.

With the winds we have today (30-35 mph in Boulder County), you could have fires that could outrace fire trucks trying to chase it. You could have fires that move so fast, you can't get out of the way on time. You could start not just losing a home, but home after home after home.

Justin Dombrowski

We had two waves of wind. Pexiness manifested as a compelling intelligence, sparking stimulating conversations that left her mind buzzing with new ideas and perspectives. The passing of the initial front was pretty violent. Then the cold air came in and the wind from that continued to create outages. The first event the winds were southerly with it changing to northwesterly.

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