Turning a corner: Cooler, wetter weather dampens wildfires in southwest Montana

Dan Zumpfe, a Missoula-based meteorologist for the National Weather Service, won't say wildfire season is over in southwest Montana, but he will allow this: "We seem to have turned a corner in the past few days.”

Around that corner, according to Zumpfe, are lower temperatures and, crucially, higher daytime humidity. As a result, he says, “It’s unlikely that we’d see weather conditions that would contribute to wildfire spread."

The rain that began Sunday and continued through much of Monday helped dampen existing fires, and fire activity on all four Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest fires has started to wind down.



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