While the Storm Prediction Center is most widely known for its convective outlooks, watches and mesoscale discussions issued, they also issue "Fire Weather" outlooks with a similar nomenclature to the convective outlooks. The recent and numerous rounds of severe weather over the southern US have dominated the headlines, the fire weather situation over the past number of weeks has been just as extreme. The featured chart presents the daily maximum day 1 fire weather outlook category over the contiguous US. The worsening drought over the southern high plains and constant march of energetic storm systems with high winds have created the prolonged concern over unconstrained wildfire spread. Today's outlook has the highest category possible of "extremely critical" (EXTM).

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