Lake Tahoe Basin under Fire Weather Watch for weekend

A fire weather watch is in effect from Saturday afternoon through Saturday night for the Lake Tahoe Basin, northeast California and Northwest Nevada, according to the National Weather Service in Reno.
The watch is associated with the possibility of dry thunderstorms and a strong outflow of wind. High pressure will move over the region this weekend with a moist southerly flow that will develop across the Sierra and Western Nevada, according to the weather service.
Moisture may combine and unstable air flow could develop to produce a chance for thunderstorms with dry lightning strikes and rain possible directly under the storm cores. Erratic winds of 40 to 50 mph are possible near the thunderstorms. Dry lightning strikes with the recent hot weather and dry conditions may create a potential for fire, according to the weather service.