A wildfire broke out in McDowell County on the afternoon of Jan. 29, prompting evacuations.
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00:00We are going to go milder in the southeast and then we'll turn wetter. In fact, some of you are
00:04going to begin to even see some rain late tonight in Little Rock and even into Nashville. Yeah,
00:08and continuing to stay on the warmer side in Florida, 53 for Tampa for your overnight low,
00:1443 there in Jacksonville. And taking a look ahead to tomorrow, most of us are staying dry.
00:19Absolutely, and we are dry and windy with a 70-plus acre wildfire in progress in McDowell
00:24County, North Carolina right now. That's going to be a concern through the next several hours.
00:29There have been evacuations associated with that, so it's windy and it is dry there in some spots.
00:34You can see that low dew point air, but eventually some of these areas like western North Carolina
00:39will begin to see some rain. And one consideration there with these fires, there's a lot of extra
00:44fuel because there's trees that have been downed by the hurricane season.