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FNUS28 KWNS 132154
FWDD38

Day 3-8 Fire Weather Outlook
NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK
0452 PM CDT Thu Jun 13 2024

Valid 151200Z - 211200Z

Broad cyclonic mid-level flow will persist over the northwestern
quadrant of the CONUS through late next week as an upper ridge
dominates the central and eastern CONUS. Several days of
wildfire-spread potential are evident over the Interior West as
multiple mid-level troughs pivot around the broad cyclonic flow
aloft. The first in a series of mid-level troughs will overspread
the Pacific Northwest on Day 3 (Saturday), with dry and windy
conditions overspreading drying fuels to the lee of the Cascades,
and farther south across southern portions of the Great Basin. By
Days 4-5 (Sunday and Monday), a broader and more amplified mid-level
trough will traverse the Interior West, supporting dry and windy
conditions atop receptive fuels from portions of the California
Valley area, to the Great Basin and Desert Southwest. The best
chance for Critically dry and windy conditions atop receptive fuels
will be over southern Utah into much of northern and central Arizona
and far western New Mexico, where 70 percent Critical probabilities
have been added. Thereafter, the mid-level trough will depart the
region. Dry conditions will persist, but questions remain regarding
the strength of the surface wind field, precluding the addition of
Critical probabilities for Days 6-8 (Tuesday-Thursday).

..Squitieri.. 06/13/2024

...Please see www.spc.noaa.gov/fire for graphic product...

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