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(NAFB.com) – National Weather Service maps show that very dry weather will continue across most of western Nebraska, which has already been hit by devastating wildfires. The dry weather will stretch down into the Southern Plains early this week. Red flag fire danger warnings have already been issued in multiple regions amid a forecast of very dry and windy weather. Winds in west-central Nebraska are forecast early this week at 10 to 20 miles per hour, gusting as high as 35 mph. The relative humidity will drop as low as ten percent, and temperatures early this week will climb to almost 90 degrees in multiple locations. Southwestern Kansas will have wind gusts up to 30 miles per hour, while the humidity will fall to around eight percent. “Any fires that develop will catch and spread very quickly in these conditions,” the National Weather Service said in an announcement.