Spot Forecast
Issued by NWS Medford, OR
Issued by NWS Medford, OR
490 FNUS76 KMFR 231727 FWSMFR Spot Forecast for Simon RX...US Forest Service National Weather Service MEDFORD OR 1027 AM PDT Thu May 23 2024 Forecast is based on forecast start time of 0900 PDT on May 24. If conditions become unrepresentative...contact the National Weather Service. .DISCUSSION...Friday afternoon the general wind will be from the west, but I expect the terrain provides some sheltering and causes the wind to be more form the southwest, coming up the entrance of the N. Umpqua river drainage. Rain amounts Friday day should remain less than 0.1 inch, but overnight, between 0.05 and 0.15 inches is realistic. This active showery pattern should prevent inversion formation Friday night. High pressure builds in this weekend, with warming, drying, east flow along ridges and valley flows at low elevations under the inversions. .FRIDAY... Sky/weather.........Mostly cloudy (65-75 percent). 35% chance of rain showers in the late morning and early afternoon, increasing to 60% in the afternoon. Max temperature.....Around 59 degrees. Min humidity........Around 45 percent. Eye level winds.....Southwest around 2 mph. Wind (20 ft)........Southwest around 5 mph. Mixing height.......4000 ft AGL. Transport winds.....West around 6 mph. CWR.................7 percent. .FRIDAY NIGHT... Sky/weather.........Mostly cloudy (70-80 percent). 55% chance of rain showers through the night. Min temperature.....Around 39 degrees. Max humidity........Around 97 percent. Eye level winds.....Southwest around 2 mph in the evening becoming south around 1 mph in the early morning. Wind (20 ft)........Southwest at 3 to 6 mph in the evening becoming south-southwest around 1 to 3 mph. Mixing height.......2100 ft AGL. Transport winds.....Northwest around 10 mph. CWR.................37 percent. .SATURDAY... Sky/weather.........Partly sunny (50-60 percent). 15% chance of rain before noon, with trace accumulations. Max temperature.....Around 56 degrees. Min humidity........Around 45 percent. Eye level winds.....Southwest around 1 mph becoming west at 1 to 4 mph in the afternoon. Wind (20 ft)........Southwest at 1 to 3 mph becoming west at 3 to 8 mph in the afternoon. Mixing height.......4700 ft AGL. Transport winds.....West around 10 mph. CWR.................19 percent. $$ Forecaster...MILES Requested by...Stacy Ainslie Type of request...WILDFIRE .TAG 2415011.0/MFR .DELDT 05/23/24 .FormatterVersion 2.0.0 .EMAIL stacy.ainslie@usda.gov