Fire Weather Watch: Southern Front Range Including Sangre De Cristo Mountains/Wet Mountains/La Veta Pass; Huerfano County Including Walsenburg; Western Las Animas County Including Trinidad and Thatcher

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Fire Weather Watch — Southern Front Range Including Sangre De Cristo Mountains/Wet Mountains/La Veta Pass; Huerfano County Including Walsenburg; Western Las Animas County Including Trinidad and Thatcher Severity: Severe. Certainty: Possible. * AFFECTED AREA...Fire Weather Zones 225, 229 and 230. * WINDS...Southwest 20 to 30 mph with gusts up to 65 mph today. The strongest gusts will occur this morning. Southwest winds 15 to 30 mph with gusts up to 40 mph on Tuesday. * RELATIVE HUMIDITY...As low as 7 percent. * IMPACTS...Extreme fire danger is expected. Fires could spread uncontrollably and be very destructive today.