Critical fire weather conditions will develop Thursday afternoon and evening. An area of low pressure will push a cold front through the area on Thursday evening, ahead of the front winds will gust to 45 mph as relative humidity drops to 5-15 percent. North of Interstate 80 moisture associated with the cold front will raise relative humidity but winds will remain gusty. The graphic above indicates the areas where the red flag warning is in affect which includes: The Western Nevada Sierra Front and West Central Nevada Basin and Range, Mineral and Southern Lyon Counties, and Mono and Eastern Alpine Counties below 8500 feet. For more information please refer to the Red Flag Warning at http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/rev/. (click for more)