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* Timing…From 11 AM to 9 PM CDT on Thursday. * Wind…Southwest at 20 to 30 mph with gusts up to 40 mph. * Humidity…As low as 8 percent. * Fuels…Dry. * Impacts…Any fires that develop can spread rapidly. Outdoor burning is discouraged.
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The National Weather Service in Lubbock has issued a Red Flag Warning, which is in effect from 11 AM to 9 PM CDT Thursday. The Fire Weather Watch is no longer in effect. * Timing…From 11 AM to 9 PM CDT on Thursday. * Wind…Southwest at 25 to 35 mph with gusts up to 45 mph. * Humidity…As low as 7 percent. * Fuels…Dry. * Impacts…Any fires that develop can spread rapidly. Outdoor burning is discouraged.
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Background:
Volcán Popocatépetl, whose name is the Aztec word for smoking mountain, towers to 5426 m 70 km SE of Mexico City to form North America’s 2nd-highest volcano. The glacier-clad stratovolcano contains a steep-walled, 250-450 m deep crater. The generally symmetrical volcano is modified by the sharp-peaked Ventorrillo on the NW, a remnant of an earlier volcano.
At least three previous major cones were destroyed by gravitational failure during the Pleistocene, producing massive debris-avalanche deposits covering broad areas south of the volcano. The modern volcano was constructed to the south of the late-Pleistocene to Holocene El Fraile cone. Three major plinian eruptions, the most recent of which took place about 800 AD, have occurred from Popocatépetl since the mid Holocene, accompanied by pyroclastic flows and voluminous lahars that swept basins below the volcano. Frequent historical eruptions, first recorded in Aztec codices, have occurred since precolumbian
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