Elevated to critical fire weather conditions remain for portions of the Southern Plains and Central/Southern Rockies. Pacific energy continues to bring mountain snow and rain to the Pacific Northwest and Northern Rockies.
A skipper is a person who has command of a boat or sea craft or tug, more or less equivalent to captain in charge aboard ship. At sea, or upon lakes and rivers, the skipper as shipmaster or captain has command over the whole crew.
Nautical. 1  first mate. 2  any of a number of officers of varying degrees of rank subordinate to the master of a merchant ship. 3  an assistant to a warrant officer or other functionary on a ship.