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Issued by NWS San Joaquin Valley, CA

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Spot Forecast for PDC Rx Burn...Cal Fire
National Weather Service Hanford CA
121 PM PDT Fri Jun 28 2024

Forecast is based on ignition time of 1700 PDT on June 29.
If conditions become unrepresentative...contact the National Weather
Service.

.DISCUSSION...

Light flow aloft will continue on Saturday for the region that
will maintain terrain driven wind that will be light. No
thunderstorms expected. Humidity will remain low through
the burn times along with elevated temperatures. The
weekend trend will be up with temperatures and lower
with humidity.  Wind is expected to be light.

.CONDITIONS AT IGNITION TIME OF 5 PM SATURDAY...

Sky/weather.........Sunny (0-5 percent).
Temperature.........100 at ignition...Max 101.
RH..................18 percent at ignition...Min 18 percent.
Eye level winds.....West winds 5 to 8 mph gusting to 13 mph.
Surrounding ridge...West 6 to 12 mph.
Mixing height.......7200 ft AGL at ignition...otherwise 7200 ft
                    AGL.
Transport winds.....West 10 mph.

.CONDITIONS AT FINISH TIME 9 PM 2100...

Sky/weather.........Clear (0-5 percent).
Temperature.........86.
RH..................28 percent.
Eye level winds.....West 3 to 6 mph gusts to 10 mph.
Surrounding ridge...West 5 to 10 mph.
Mixing height.......4100 ft AGL.
Transport winds.....Northwest 10 mph.

.SATURDAY NIGHT...

Sky/weather.........Clear (0-10 percent).
Temperature.........Min 68.
RH..................Max 53 percent.
Eye level winds.....West winds less than 5 mph shifting to the south
                    overnight.
Surrounding ridge...West wind 5 mph becoming light south overnight.
Mixing height.......Falling to 300 ft AGL.
Transport winds.....West 10 mph shifting to the south overnight.

.SUNDAY...

Sky/weather.........Sunny (0-10 percent).
Temperature.........Max 100.
RH..................Min 22 percent.
Eye level winds.....Light winds becoming west up to 5 mph late in
                    the morning.
Surrounding ridge...Light winds becoming West 5 to 10 then continuing
                    to shift to the Northwest by 1600.
Mixing height.......Rising to 7900 ft AGL.
Transport winds.....South 5 to 10 mph shifting to the west in the
                    early afternoon,
                    then shifting to the northwest 9 to 10 mph late
                    in the afternoon.

$$
Forecaster...PROTON
Requested by...Larry Pendarvis
Type of request...PRESCRIBED
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.DELDT 06/28/24
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.EMAIL larry.pendarvis@fire.ca.gov