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Spot Forecast for China Ridge RX...USFS
National Weather Service Hanford CA
612 PM PDT Mon Apr 29 2024

Forecast is based on ignition time of 0900 PDT on April 30.
If conditions become unrepresentative...contact the National Weather
Service.

.DISCUSSION...
Dry and breezy conditions will prevail through Wednesday.
Seasonable temperatures will continue through Wednesday then
warming to 8 to 12 degrees above normals by Friday. Confidence
is growing for a system moving in for this weekend which has the
potential for valley rainfall and mountain snowfall.

.TUESDAY...

Sky/weather.........Sunny (0-5 percent).
Max temperature.....65-70.
Min humidity........28-33 percent.
Eye level winds.....Upslope/upvalley winds up to 8 mph.
Surrounding ridge...Northwest 8 to 11 mph.
Mixing height.......Rising to 3700 ft AGL.
Transport winds.....Northwest around 10 mph.

.TUESDAY NIGHT...

Sky/weather.........Clear (0-10 percent).
Min temperature.....43-48.
Max humidity........59-64 percent.
Eye level winds.....Upslope/upvalley winds up to 8 mph
                    becoming downslope/downvalley up to 4 mph
overnight.
Surrounding ridge...Northwest 13 to 18 mph becoming north 15
to 20 mph.
Mixing height.......Falling to 300 ft AGL.
Transport winds.....North around 8 mph.

.WEDNESDAY...

Sky/weather.........Sunny (0-5 percent).
Max temperature.....66-71.
Min humidity........29-34 percent.
Eye level winds.....Downslope/downvalley winds up to 4 mph
becoming Upslope/upvalley 6 to 8 mph in
the afternoon.
Surrounding ridge...North 18 to 21 mph becoming northwest
7 to 10 mph.
Mixing height.......Rising to 3800 ft AGL.
Transport winds.....Northwest around 9 mph.

$$
Forecaster...KALB
Requested by...David Reynolds
Type of request...PRESCRIBED
.TAG 2412687.0/HNX
.DELDT 04/30/24
.FormatterVersion 2.0.0
.EMAIL bradley.walker@usda.gov,david.reynolds@usda.gov,patrick.green@usda.gov