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Local Weather: If you wake up early today, you may be greeted by a few morning showers. But if you're a late sleeper, the weather should be sunny and mild by the time you crawl out of bed. Highs today are around 70, with lows tonight in the 40s. Mostly cloudy tonight with a chance of rain late tonight and into tomorrow. Highs to morrow are in the low 50s. Precipitation probability is 40 per cent this morning, 20 per cent this afternoon, but increasing to 40 per cent again late tonight. Winds today are becoming westerly at 15 to 25 miles per hour. Marine Forecast: Winds today will be west erly 15 to 25 knots, and vari able tonight at 10 knots or less. Chance of a few showers this morning, then becoming partly cloudy later in the day, with chance of some rain tonight. Visibility will improve to five miles or more today, with average wave heights of two to four feet tomorrow, Ocean Temperature; Mid as Today's tides; Highs 6:53 a.m. and 7:20 p.m. Low 1:12 a.m. Tomorrow's tides; Highs 7:40 a.m. and 8:06 pm Lows 1:41 a.m. and 1:59 m For Red Bank and Rumson bridge, add two hours; Sea Bright, deduct 10 minutes; Long Branch, deduct 15 min utes; Highlands bridge, add 40 minutes. WASHINGTON (AP) — National Weather Service report of maximum teatures for 12-hour period, min imum Temperatures forehour period cause of dense smoke. All the fires had been brought under control by Friday morning and new ones were being contained easily, assistant Division Fire War den Richard Bentz said at headquarters in Trenton. “The wind is less and the fires aren't being pushed as hard,’ he said. ‘Our fire fighters can get in closer and stop them. We've had two re ported in the last few hours and they were stopped at a quarter acre, David B. Harrison, division fire warden for Central New Jersey, blamed many of the fires on arson. “I believe some of these were set, because they start ed well off the roads, he said. “A careless person doesn't walk a ways into the woods to be careless. Environmental Protection Commissioner David Bardin said his department believes 41 per cent of the forest fires in the state last year were set intentionally. Bardin and Gov. Brendan T. Byrne flew over the At ston Lake fire in National Guard helicopters Friday. Dense smoke from the fires in pine needles on the forest floor rose more than 2,000 feet and could be seen more than 20 miles away. Bardin said the state's for est fire season is just begin ning and Byrne praised the work of about 1,500 volunteers who fought 42 fires Thursday and Friday. The governor also asked citizens to be careful about the use of flame near the woodlands, but he said there are no immediate plans to close state lands Bardin called the Pine Bar rens pitch pine and scrub oak woodlands “the second worst fire risk in the country,” only ranking behind Southern Cali fornia. ‘ He said last summer was dry, followed by a deep freeze in the winter, so that the sandy soil in the Pinelands held little moisture. Harrison added that in spring before the trees “green out the sun warms and dries old pine needles on the ground. “That stuff is just like gaso line,” he said. The dirty work-bulldozing fire breaks and hauling water — went on below. Bentz said the winds gusting to 50 miles per hour Thursday caused “high spotting, in which em bers are lofted by hot air from the fire, then blown downwind to start new fires. Rain 19 Ci ti now —— oe 98h Flurries Cold Stationary ae oe res torm secluded for Sunday ‘70 Figures show temperatures for area shows. NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE: NOAA, U.S. Dept. of Commerce — and eee A me howe red en end _,apods ee aa lor nent Saneur pn-hour marisa. text Past gacksonville ner, 4h dh al Station ive % 55 All pe mn 5 Cy Asheville Amorillo mn - see each u “ Atlante mn 4) mil 4) Birmingham m 6 7 ih Hameorek iv New an d Boston v 4) 2 7 6 Chor’ ton, S.C Pi Me tr a? mn 5 7 Reena Ore 16 us Stove v % Cincinnati giqvelane 2B San Francisco 43 cl v g Ba WAPATNER KEY. She , chclear, 6 it pe-partly cloudy, fr-fair, an-snow, rn- Honolulu 3 rain, M-missing. she tea — a —
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Red Bank Register
Red Bank, New Jersey, US
Sun, Apr 03, 1977
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