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Spot Forecast for Odum Point...USFS
National Weather Service Birmingham AL
404 PM CDT Wed Oct 8 2025

Forecast is based on forecast start time of 1700 CDT on October 08.
If conditions become unrepresentative...contact the National Weather
Service.

.DISCUSSION...

RH values will recover into the 85 to 90 percent range at the Odum
Point wildfire overnight. 20ft and transport winds will gradually
shift from northerly to northeasterly and finally easterly by
Thursday morning as a back door cold front moves through. Easterly
20ft and transport winds continue through the day on Thursday with
gusts up to 22 mph at times. With drier air moving in RH values
drop into the 45 to 50 percent range. There will be an outside
chance (less than 10 percent) of a brief shower tomorrow.

.REST OF TODAY...

Sky/weather.........Mostly sunny (45-55 percent).
CWR.................10 percent.
Max temperature.....Around 79.
Min humidity........54 percent.
Wind (20 ft)........North winds around 7 mph.
Mixing height.......3400 ft AGL.
Transport winds.....North around 13 mph.
Dispersion index....53.
LVORI...............1.

TIME (CDT)      5PM
Sky (%).........48
Weather cov.....
Weather type....
Tstm cov........
CWR.............10
Temp............77
RH..............58
20 FT wind dir..N
20 FT wind dir..010
20 FT wind spd..7
20 FT wind gust.13
Mix hgt (kft)...3.4
Transp wind dir.N
Transp wind spd.13
Dispersion idx..53
LVORI...........1

.TONIGHT...

Sky/weather.........Mostly cloudy (45-55 percent) then becoming
                    partly cloudy (35-45 percent).
CWR.................10 percent.
Min temperature.....Around 60.
Max humidity........90 percent.
Wind (20 ft)........Northeast winds 7 to 9 mph becoming 8 to 9 mph
                    after 3 am.
Mixing height.......0 ft AGL.
Transport winds.....Northeast 12 to 13 mph shifting to the east
                    around 12 mph after 3 am.
Dispersion index....4 increasing to 10 after 3 am.
LVORI...............4.

TIME (CDT)      6PM 7PM 8PM 9PM 10P 11P MID 1AM 2AM 3AM 4AM 5AM
Sky (%).........51  48  46  41  38  39  37  39  36  42  42  48
Weather cov.....
Weather type....
Tstm cov........
CWR.............10  0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0
Temp............76  73  68  67  66  64  64  62  62  62  61  61
RH..............60  66  84  84  87  90  87  90  90  87  84  84
20 FT wind dir..N   N   N   N   N   N   NE  NE  NE  NE  E   NE
20 FT wind dir..010 010 010 020 020 020 030 040 040 050 070 060
20 FT wind spd..7   7   7   8   8   9   9   8   8   8   8   9
20 FT wind gust.12  13  14  14  14  14  13  12  13  13  13  14
Mix hgt (kft)...0.4 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1
Transp wind dir.N   N   N   NE  NE  NE  NE  NE  NE  E   E   E
Transp wind spd.12  12  12  12  12  13  12  12  12  12  12  12
Dispersion idx..7   2   0   0   0   0   8   8   8   10  10  10
LVORI...........1   4   4   4   6   6   6   5   5   5   4   4

.THURSDAY...

Sky/weather.........Mostly sunny (45-55 percent).
CWR.................0 percent.
Max temperature.....Around 72.
Min humidity........49 percent.
Wind (20 ft)........East winds 7 to 9 mph. Gusts up to 22 mph in
                    the morning.
Mixing height.......2700 ft AGL.
Transport winds.....East 13 to 18 mph.
Dispersion index....15 increasing to 33 late in the morning, then
                    decreasing to 29 late in the afternoon.
LVORI...............3.

TIME (CDT)      6AM 7AM 8AM 9AM 10A 11A 12P 1PM 2PM 3PM 4PM 5PM
Sky (%).........56  53  47  43  45  51  54  57  57  57  54  47
Weather cov.....
Weather type....
Tstm cov........
CWR.............0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0
Temp............61  60  62  64  66  69  70  71  71  71  72  70
RH..............84  87  81  73  61  53  51  51  51  51  49  49
20 FT wind dir..E   E   E   E   E   E   E   E   E   E   E   E
20 FT wind dir..070 080 080 090 090 090 090 090 090 080 080 080
20 FT wind spd..9   9   9   9   8   8   8   7   7   7   7   7
20 FT wind gust.16  17  17  18  17  16  14  14  13  14  13  14
Mix hgt (kft)...0.1 0.1 0.7 1.2 1.5 1.8 2.3 2.6 2.7 2.6 2.3 2.0
Transp wind dir.E   E   E   E   E   E   E   E   E   E   E   E
Transp wind spd.13  13  18  18  17  15  14  13  13  13  13  13
Dispersion idx..11  11  16  16  19  34  37  28  29  28  26  31
LVORI...........4   4   4   4   2   2   2   2   2   2   2   2

$$
Forecaster...JDavis
Requested by...Troy McFarland
Type of request...WILDFIRE
.TAG 2523194.0/BMX
.DELDT 10/08/25
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