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Unfortunately, we are facing weather conditions that increasingly bring us more extreme fire danger — warmer or hotter temperatures, dryer air, sometimes strong winds, dry lightning. so all these conditions are becoming more common, more frequent, and we see that happening here in southern europe, where there —— they are already common, but now they are extending north. yesterday, for example, was for me a novelty, because we had relevant fires all across southern europe countries but also in france, belgium, germany and the uk, so it was a first time as farasi the uk, so it was a first ...

Thunderstorms rolling through the Central Valley and the Sierras are bringing a chance for lightning into the interior valleys of the Central Coast.

As a high-pressure system continues to expand across the western United States, monsoon moisture is expected to hit the Bay Area in a second pulse from...

Right now, pretty much anywhere across the inner mountain west from california to the great basin, which is your nevada/utah area, up through the northern rockies. >> reporter: that's heath hockenberry. he's in charge of the fire weather program for the national weather service. so basically, he communicates the forecast to the different agencies that are looking for this. the forecast calls for some of this lightning to come in possibly around this time tomorrow and into monday. and so what they're doing is they're actually stationing fire crews out in the field to be ready for it. they say t...

For more on the wildfires, let's go to nbc's scott cohn. he joins us in los gatos, california, which is just south of san jose. scott, what's the latest? >> it's not good, joshua. as you said, 70 wildfires going on right now and let's remember, this is july. the peak of fire season is normally a couple of months away, but we're seeing moisture levels that we don't normally see this early in the season. so that has a lot of people concerned. fires are burning in washington, oregon, california, nevada. they did get a little bit of relief in the southwest with monsoons, but the issue with that is...