Spot Forecast
Issued by NWS Blacksburg, VA
Issued by NWS Blacksburg, VA
571 FNUS71 KRNK 270734 FWSRNK Spot Forecast for Huckleberry Knob...USFS National Weather Service Blacksburg VA 334 AM EDT Sat Apr 27 2024 Forecast is based on forecast start time of 0500 EDT on April 27. If conditions become unrepresentative, contact the National Weather Service. .DISCUSSION... A warm front will keep clouds and occasional light rain showers in the region through mid morning. Clouds lift but stick around for the remainder of the day, which will be dry and relatively warm. Even warmer temperatures develop beginning Sunday and occurring most of the week. Rain chances return by Tuesday with a frontal passage. Additional scattered showers and thunderstorms will be possible, mainly in the afternoon hours, each day thereafter for the remainder of the work week. Minimum RH values lower each afternoon through Monday when they will reach 30 to 35 percent. After that, they rebound. .TODAY... Sky/weather.........Mostly cloudy (70-80 percent). Slight chance of rain showers early in the morning. CWR (0.01 in).......20 percent decreasing to 10 percent in the late morning and afternoon. Max temperature.....Around 65. Min humidity........56 percent. Wind (20 ft)........South winds 7 to 10 mph increasing to around 10 mph late in the afternoon. Mixing height.......4200 ft AGL. Mixing winds........South 12 to 15 mph. Smoke dispersal.....Poor (10200 knot-ft) early in the morning increasing to good (55100 knot-ft) in the afternoon. Haines Index........2 to 3 or very low potential for large plume dominated fire growth. TIME (EDT) 6 AM 8 AM 10 AM NOON 2 PM 4 PM Sky (%).........97 80 63 63 66 69 Weather cov.....S CHC S CHC Weather type....RNSHWR RNSHWR NONE NONE NONE NONE Tstm cov........ CWR.............20 20 10 0 0 0 Temp............47 48 53 58 63 65 RH..............97 99 82 70 59 56 20 ft wind......SE 7 S 10 S 10 S 9 S 10 S 10 20 ft wind gust.12 12 12 12 12 13 Mix hgt (ft)....1200 1100 2000 3000 3500 4200 Mixing wind......SE 13 S 13 S 15 S 13 S 14 S 15 Haines index....2 3 3 3 3 3 VRate mph-ft/1K.16 14 30 38 48 63 .TONIGHT... Sky/weather.........Mostly cloudy (70-80 percent) then becoming partly cloudy (40-50 percent) then becoming mostly cloudy (60-70 percent). CWR (0.01 in).......10 percent. Min temperature.....Around 56. Max humidity........85 percent. Wind (20 ft)........South winds 8 to 11 mph shifting to the southwest around 8 mph after 3 am. Mixing height.......500 ft AGL. Mixing winds........South 12 to 17 mph. Smoke dispersal.....Good (55000 knot-ft) early in the evening decreasing to poor (5300 knot-ft) late in the night. Haines Index........3 to 4 or very low to low potential for large plume dominated fire growth. TIME (EDT) 6 PM 8 PM 10 PM MIDNGT 2 AM 4 AM Sky (%).........82 78 47 42 68 62 Weather cov..... Weather type....NONE NONE NONE NONE NONE NONE Tstm cov........ CWR.............10 10 0 0 0 0 Temp............65 60 59 57 56 56 RH..............56 68 69 75 79 85 20 ft wind......S 11 S 10 S 8 SW 8 SW 10 SW 8 20 ft wind gust.12 11 10 10 11 10 Mix hgt (ft)....3700 800 500 600 800 700 Mixing wind......S 17 S 14 S 12 S 12 SW 14 SW 13 Haines index....3 3 3 3 4 4 VRate mph-ft/1K.63 12 6 6 10 9 .SUNDAY... Sky/weather.........Mostly sunny (25-35 percent). CWR (0.01 in).......0 percent. Max temperature.....Around 79. Min humidity........40 percent. Wind (20 ft)........Southwest winds 6 to 8 mph. Mixing height.......6000 ft AGL. Mixing winds........Southwest 6 to 13 mph. Smoke dispersal.....Poor (6800 knot-ft) early in the morning increasing to good (48200 knot-ft) in the afternoon. Haines Index........4 or low potential for large plume dominated fire growth. TIME (EDT) 6 AM 9 AM NOON 3 PM Sky (%).........56 30 5 16 Weather cov..... Weather type....NONE NONE NONE NONE Tstm cov........ CWR.............0 0 0 0 Temp............56 62 72 78 RH..............85 72 52 40 20 FT wind......SW 8G10 SW 6G10 SW 6G8 SW 6G8 Mix hgt (ft)....700 1300 4000 6000 Mixing wind......SW 12 W 10 SW 7 SW 7 Haines index....4 4 4 4 VRate mph-ft/1K.8 13 28 49 $$ Forecaster...Hanes Requested by...Jesse Holguin Type of request...WILDFIRE .TAG 2412315.3/RNK .DELDT 04/27/24 .FormatterVersion 2.0.0 .EMAIL Jholguin@blm.gov