Area Forecast Discussion
Issued by NWS Boise, ID
Issued by NWS Boise, ID
096 FXUS65 KBOI 132016 AFDBOI Area Forecast Discussion National Weather Service Boise ID Issued by National Weather Service Pocatello ID 116 PM MST Thu Nov 13 2025 .SHORT TERM...Tonight through Saturday night... Pacific cold front will move across our CWA overnight and Friday morning with light to moderate rain in northern mountains and light rain elsewhere. Temps will stay mild with lows in the upper 30s through 40s, with snow level above 8000 feet MSL. Not much thermal contrast across the front, so Friday will be only a few degrees cooler than today. Friday night will be colder than tonight as skies clear, with lows 25 to 32 in the mountains and mid 30s to lower 40s in the valleys. Patchy fog will form in the valleys early Saturday morning. Pacific upper low will move southward off the California coast Friday, then inland across southern California Friday night and Saturday, then northeastward Into Nevada Saturday night, leading to light rain in our southern CWA zones by sunrise Sunday. .LONG TERM...Sunday through Thursday... Unsettled weather returns after Saturdays lull in activity. A trough digging down from the Gulf of Alaska will steer the SoCal closed low over our area come Sunday, bringing widespread showers across our area. Snow levels will remain at around 6-7 kft MSL through Sunday. Precipitation will continue through Monday as the Gulf of Alaska trough makes its way inland. This trough will bring a cold front through sometime Monday/Tuesday and lower snow levels to 3.5-4.5 kft MSL. As this system departs Wednesday, precipitation chances across the area will begin to taper off ahead of the next system set to come in mid-late next week. In general, expect cool and unsettled conditions through the long term. && .AVIATION... Mostly VFR. LLWS possible this afternoon/overnight. Scattered rain showers north/west of a KREO-KBOI-KSNT line. Mountain obscuration in precip and low clouds this evening. Surface winds S-E 5-15 kt with gusts of 20-30 kt. Winds aloft at 10kft MSL: 25-35 kt, highest in E-Oregon. KBOI...VFR. Light rain/virga showers late Thursday afternoon/early evening. Surface winds: SE 5-15 kt with gusts of 20-25 kt this afternoon. Weekend Outlook... Patchy fog Saturday morning, otherwise VFR. Increasing clouds late Saturday with showers developing Sunday morning, expect mountain obscuration Sunday. Snow levels around 7-8kft MSL. Surface Winds: Variable up to 10 kt Saturday, SW-SE 5-15 kt Sunday. && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... Baker City 36 61 29 56 / 70 20 0 10 Boise 48 63 41 60 / 60 40 0 0 Burns 31 59 23 56 / 60 10 0 0 Caldwell 45 65 37 59 / 70 20 0 0 Fairfield 34 57 25 56 / 60 60 0 0 Idaho City 38 59 29 59 / 90 70 10 0 Jerome 44 60 38 57 / 20 40 0 0 McCall 38 52 31 51 / 100 80 20 10 Mountain Home 43 63 36 61 / 40 30 0 0 Ontario 44 64 35 57 / 80 20 0 0 Rome 37 62 29 59 / 30 10 0 0 Twin Falls 46 63 38 58 / 20 40 0 0 && .BOI WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... ID...None. OR...None. && $$ www.weather.gov/Boise Interact with us via social media: www.facebook.com/NWSBoise www.x.com/NWSBoise SHORT TERM...LC LONG TERM....NF AVIATION.....NF