Spot Forecast
Issued by NWS Lake Charles, LA
Issued by NWS Lake Charles, LA
639 FNUS74 KLCH 291140 FWSLCH Spot Forecast for ADC Prescribed burn...LDWF National Weather Service Lake Charles LA 640 AM CDT Wed May 29 2024 Forecast is based on ignition time of 0700 CDT on May 29. If conditions become unrepresentative...contact the National Weather Service. Please contact our office at (337) 477-5285, if you have questions or concerns with this forecast. .DISCUSSION... Scattered showers and thunderstorms are expected to develop with daytime heating and an approach of an upper level disturbance. Best time to see any activity will be between noon and 5 pm. .REST OF TODAY... Sky/weather.........Mostly cloudy (70-80 percent) then becoming partly sunny (50-60 percent). Patchy fog early in the morning. Slight chance of showers and thunderstorms early in the afternoon. Chance of showers and thunderstorms late in the afternoon. Max temperature.....Around 90. Min humidity........50 percent. Eye level winds.....Light winds becoming southeast around 3 mph late in the morning, then increasing to south around 4 mph early in the afternoon decreasing to around 3 mph late in the afternoon shifting to the around 4 mph. Wind (20 ft)........Light winds becoming southeast around 5 mph early in the afternoon, then becoming light late in the afternoon becoming south around 5 mph late in the afternoon. Gusty and erratic winds expected near thunderstorms in the afternoon. Mixing height.......5300 ft AGL. Transport winds.....East 5 to 9 mph shifting to the south around 8 mph in the afternoon. TIME (CDT) 7AM 8AM 9AM 10A 11A 12P 1PM 2PM 3PM 4PM 5PM Sky (%).........75 48 54 40 41 45 51 56 59 66 60 Weather cov..... PTY SCH CHC CHC CHC CHC Weather type.... FOG RW RW RW RW RW Tstm cov........ SCH CHC CHC CHC CHC Temp............70 71 76 80 84 87 88 88 89 88 88 RH..............87 90 82 72 61 53 50 52 50 52 54 20 FT wind dir..E E E SE SE SE SE S SE S S 20 FT wind spd..2 2 2 2 3 3 5 5 3 3 5 20 FT wind gust.8 8 8 9 10 12 13 13 13 12 12 Eye lvl wnd dir.E E E SE SE SE SE S SE S S Eye lvl wnd spd.1 1 1 1 2 3 4 4 3 3 4 Eye lvl wnd gst.5 5 5 5 6 7 8 8 8 7 7 Mix hgt (kft)...0.4 0.6 1.0 1.5 2.3 3.4 4.3 4.6 5.1 5.3 3.7 Transp wind dir.E E E SE SE SE SE S S S S Transp wind spd.5 7 8 9 9 8 8 8 8 8 8 $$ Forecaster...RUA Requested by...Eric Baka Type of request...PRESCRIBED .TAG 2415271.0/LCH .DELDT 05/29/24 .FormatterVersion 2.0.0 .EMAIL ebaka@wlf.la.gov