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Spot Forecast for 209 Naluk...Alaska Fire Service
National Weather Service Fairbanks AK
914 AM AKDT Thu Jun 27 2024

Forecast is based on forecast start time of 0900 AKDT on June 27.
If conditions become unrepresentative...contact the National Weather
Service.

.DISCUSSION...Temperatures today will be a few degrees cooler than yesterday
and RHs around 10% wetter. Widely scattered thunderstorms are expected this afternoon
as a convergence zone sets up between low pressure in the Bering Sea and a strong
ridge of high pressure to the east. Storms may be quite strong and produce
erratic outflow winds as high as 40 mph in the afternoon and evening. Friday
will be cooler and wetter yet with no thunderstorms expected.


.REST OF TODAY...

Sky/weather.........Partly sunny (50-60 percent). Areas of smoke.
                    Scattered showers and isolated thunderstorms.
CWR.................10 percent.
LAL.................2.
Max temperature.....Around 74.
Min humidity........47 percent.
Wind (20 ft)........Southwest winds 5 to 8 mph. Gusty and erratic
                    winds expected near thunderstorms.
Ridgetop wind.......Southeast winds 5 to 8 mph shifting to the
                    southwest around 10 mph after 1000. Gusty
                    and erratic winds expected near thunderstorms.
Mixing height.......2500 ft AGL increasing to 4600 ft AGL late in
                    the afternoon.
Transport winds.....Southwest around 7 mph.
Inversion burnoff...Around 1000

.TONIGHT...

Sky/weather.........Mostly cloudy (55-65 percent). Areas of smoke
                    through the night. Isolated thunderstorms in
                    the evening. Scattered rain showers through the
                    night.
CWR.................10 percent.
LAL.................2.
Min temperature.....Around 59.
Max humidity........78 percent.
Wind (20 ft)........West winds 5 to 6 mph. Gusty and erratic winds
                    expected near thunderstorms in the evening.
Ridgetop wind.......West winds 5 to 7 mph. Gusty and erratic winds
                    expected near thunderstorms in the evening.
Mixing height.......4600 ft AGL decreasing to 500 ft AGL in the
                    late evening and overnight.
Transport winds.....Southeast around 5 mph.
Inversion setup.....Around midnight

.FRIDAY...

Sky/weather.........Mostly cloudy (75-85 percent). Areas of smoke.
                    Isolated rain showers.
CWR.................2 percent.
LAL.................1.
Max temperature.....Around 67.
Min humidity........53 percent.
Wind (20 ft)........Southwest winds 5 to 8 mph.
Ridgetop wind.......Southwest winds 5 to 10 mph.
Mixing height.......2100 ft AGL increasing to 4400 ft AGL late in
                    the afternoon.
Transport winds.....Southwest around 9 mph.
Inversion burnoff...Around 1000

.FORECAST DAYS 3 THROUGH 5...
.SATURDAY...
Partly cloudy. Areas of smoke. Lows in the mid 50s. Highs in the
lower 70s. West winds around 6 mph.
.SUNDAY...
Partly cloudy. Areas of smoke. Lows in the upper 50s. Highs in
the mid 70s. Northwest winds around 8 mph.
.MONDAY...
Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 50s. Highs in the lower 70s.
Northwest winds around 9 mph.

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Forecaster...CHRIEST/STOKES
Requested by...Dustin Widmer
Type of request...WILDFIRE
.TAG 2416663.2/AFG
.DELDT 06/27/24
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