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Spot Forecast for Bluff Fire...Golden Valley County
National Weather Service Billings MT
1108 AM MDT Fri Jul 24 2026

Forecast is based on forecast start time of 1100 MDT on July 24.
If conditions become unrepresentative...contact the National Weather
Service.

Please contact our office if you have questions
or concerns with this forecast.

...FIRE WEATHER WATCH IN EFFECT FROM SATURDAY AFTERNOON THROUGH
SATURDAY EVENING...

.DISCUSSION...

Triple digit heat is possible today and tomorrow. Dry conditions
are also expected with minimum relative humidity values in the
teens. Isolated showers and thunderstorms are expected today. Any
shower or thunderstorm that does form will be capable of producing
strong wind gusts. Saturday brings a risk level 1 of 5 for severe
storms with widely scattered showers and thunderstorms expected.
The main hazard with these storms will be wind gusts up to 60 mph.
Torgerson

.REST OF TODAY...

Sky/weather.........Sunny. Patchy smoke.
CWR.................0 percent.
Chance of lightning.12 percent.
Max temperature.....97-101.
Min humidity........13-17 percent.
Wind (20 ft)........
 Slope/valley.......West winds 15 to 20 mph with gusts to around 30
                    mph.
 Ridgetop...........West around 30 mph.
Mixing height.......Increasing to 12100 ft AGL in the afternoon.
Transport winds.....West around 26 mph.

.TONIGHT...

Sky/weather.........Mostly clear. Slight chance of showers in the
                    evening. Patchy smoke through the night.
CWR.................5 percent.
Chance of lightning.12 percent.
Min temperature.....63-67.
Max humidity........49-53 percent.
Wind (20 ft)........
 Slope/valley.......Northwest winds up to 12 mph with gusts up to 23
                    mph in the evening becoming light overnight.
 Ridgetop...........Northwest around 25 mph in the evening becoming
northeast 5 to 10 mph overnight.
Mixing height.......Decreasing to 400 ft AGL overnight.
Transport winds.....Northwest around 20 mph in the evening becoming
northeast around 6 mph overnight.

.SATURDAY...

Sky/weather.........Mostly sunny becoming mostly cloudy. Patchy smoke.
                    Chance of showers and slight chance of
                    thunderstorms in the afternoon.
CWR.................5 percent.
Chance of lightning.22 percent.
Max temperature.....99-103.
Min humidity........14-18 percent.
Wind (20 ft)........
 Slope/valley.......Light winds shifting to the southwest
                    8 to 14 mph with gusts to around 22 mph in the
                    afternoon. Gusty and erratic winds expected
                    near thunderstorms.
 Ridgetop...........Southwest around 25 mph.
Mixing height.......Increasing to 13100 ft AGL in the afternoon.
Transport winds.....Southwest around 20 mph.

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Forecaster...Torgerson
Requested by...Bob Pollis
Type of request...WILDFIRE
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