Where there is no water vapor in the satellite picture below, there are wildfires. I guess its a little dry, huh? And HOT !

UPDATE: Four Separate Wildfires Ignite Monday (click at title to entry)
April 14, 2008 11:27 PM EDT
Updated By: Johnray Strickland
j.strickland@krdo.com
EL PASO COUNTY - Warm and dry conditions help to fuel four wildfires in Southern Colorado Monday afternoon. Three fires are within miles of each other while the fourth is South of the main gate of Fort Carson.
20 acres of land in Fort Carson was engulfed in flames Monday evening as the latest fire to break out. The fire raged near Highway 115 and Juniper Valley. Fire crews had the blaze surrounded by a perimeter and expect the flame to be contained shortly.
The call for the first wildfire came in around 4:30 p.m. The fire is burning on Baggett road and Big Springs road in Eastern El Paso County. No further information on this fire is available at this time.
The second fire ignited on the corner of Dodge road and Dodge circle in Falcon. The fire burned a total of 5 to 10 acres and was 100% contained by 3:00 p.m. Falcon Fire, Black Forest Fire and Woodman Valley were called in to control the flames.
The fire didn't have enough strength to jump the road and died on its own. No structures were threatened and no one was injured.
The third fire broke out just 25 minutes northeast in Calhan. Workers were welding a fence on Calhan highway and Judge Orr road when sparks ignited the fire.
Four fire trucks were called in to help keep the flames under control, including Tri Co., Calhan and Elliott.
The fire burned less than one acre and is now completely extinguished.

I'd pay attention to the current conditions over the USA. Yep. Click for 12 hour loop.

April 15, 2008
0230Z
UNISYS Water Vapor Satellite


April 11, 2008, 9:11PM
At least 8 tornadoes swept through Texas (click here)
© 2008 The Associated Press
DALLAS — At least eight tornadoes and a line of intense thunderstorms were responsible for widespread wind damage in North Texas, the National Weather Service said Friday.
The storms snapped utility poles, peeled roofs from buildings and sent trees crashing into homes, but no deaths were reported. There were several injuries, including one gas field worker who lost an arm when the storms hit while he was inside a trailer at a drilling site.
Areas where tornadoes touched down Wednesday night and Thursday morning included: south of the town of Breckenridge in Stephens County; the city of Breckenridge; Palo Pinto County near Oran; north of Alvarado in Johnson County; DeSoto in Dallas County; McKinney in Collin County; San Angelo; and Leary in Bowie County, said Jesse Moore, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Fort Worth.
Most of the tornadoes packed winds around 90 mph, while the Leary tornado had winds up to 125 mph, Moore said.
"This damaging line of thunderstorms was part of one of the most active 24-hour periods in recent North Texas weather history," National Weather Service meteorologist Bill Bunting wrote in his report.
Damage estimates in the Dallas-Fort Worth area are expected to top $35 million, said Sandra Helin, a spokeswoman for the Southwestern Insurance Information Service.
"We expect that figure to rise significantly as adjusters continue to assess damage and as homeowners inspect their homes over the weekend," Helin said.
About 25,000 customers in the Dallas-Fort Worth area remained without power Friday evening, said Rob Trimble, president and CEO of Oncor.

Arctic ice shelf now split in three, mission finds

..."The map of Canada is changing," Derek Mueller, a Trent University researcher, said yesterday at Eureka's weather station, which is fewer than 1,200 kilometres south of the North Pole on the western coast of Ellesmere Island. "There are only five [ice shelves] left on Ellesmere, but almost 100 years ago the entire coastline was covered in ice shelves."...


Arctic Sea Ice Younger than Normal (click here)
...The area and thickness of sea ice that survives the summer has been declining over the past decade. Whereas perennial ice used to cover 50-60 percent of the Arctic, it covered less than 30 percent in 2008—down 10 percent from 2007. The ice that remains is also getting younger. In the mid- to late 1980s, over 20 percent of Arctic sea ice was at least six years old; in February 2008, just 6 percent of the ice was six years old or older....

The Weather at Glacier Bay National Park (Crystal Wind Chime) is:

5:57 PM AKDT

Lat/Lon: 58.8° N 137.0° W

Elevation :: 33 ft / 10 m

Temperature :: 39 Fahrenheit

Conditions :: Overcast

Windchill :: 34 F / 1 C

Humidity :: 87%

Dew Point :: 36 F / 2 C

Wind :: 7 mph / 11 km/h / 3.1 m/s from the ESE

Pressure :: 29.76 in / 1008 hPa (Falling)

Visibility :: 8.0 miles / 12.9 kilometers

UV :: 0 out of 16

Clouds :: Few 900 ft / 274 m
Mostly Cloudy 1600 ft / 487 m
Overcast 2600 ft / 792 m
(Above Ground Level)