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Spot Forecast for North Hebgen Hand Piles RX...USFS
National Weather Service Billings MT
236 AM MST Wed Nov 19 2025

Forecast is based on ignition time of 0900 MST on November 19.
If conditions become unrepresentative...contact the National Weather
Service.

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

.DISCUSSION...
A weather system moving across the region today will produce
isolated rain/snow showers over the burn vicinity. However, the
chance of wetting precip is quite low (<5%). before things
diminish late in the day. Winds will be light and generally
westerly, but may be variable at times when showers are in the
vicinity. SOme fog is possible tonight, but otherwise look for
decreasing clouds and mostly sunny conditions Thursday with light
winds. BT

.REST OF TODAY...

Sky/weather.........Mostly cloudy. Slight chance of morning snow showers,
                    then slight chance of rain showers in the afternoon.
CWR.................0 percent.
Max temperature.....42-46.
Min humidity........64-72 percent.
Wind (20 ft)........
 Slope/valley.......Light winds becoming west/southwest up to 7 mph
                    early in the afternoon, then becoming light
                    late in the afternoon.
 Ridgetop...........Southwest around 14 mph.
Mixing height.......1200 ft AGL early in the morning increasing to
                    3700 ft AGL in the afternoon.
Transport winds.....Southwest 6 to 11 mph.

TIME (MST)      9AM 10A 11A 12P 1PM 2PM 3PM 4PM 5PM
Sky (%).........92  83  82  84  77  72  72  76  69
Weather cov.....SCH SCH SCH SCH SCH SCH     SCH
Weather type....RS  RS  RS  RS  RS  RW      RW
Tstm cov........
Temp............33  35  38  41  42  42  43  41  39
RH..............96  88  83  75  70  66  65  67  75
20 FT wind dir..SE  S   S   SW  SW  SW  SW  S   S
20 FT wind spd..3   5   6   6   6   7   5   4   4
20 FT wind gust.6   8   8   9   10  10  10  8   7

.TONIGHT...

Sky/weather.........Mostly cloudy.
CWR.................0 percent.
Min temperature.....22-26.
Max humidity........92-100 percent.
Wind (20 ft)........
 Slope/valley.......Light winds.
 Ridgetop...........Southwest 10 to 15 mph.
Mixing height.......1100 ft AGL early in the evening decreasing to
                    1000 ft AGL overnight.
Transport winds.....South 5 to 6 mph.

TIME (MST)      6PM 7PM 8PM 9PM 10P 11P MID 1AM 2AM 3AM 4AM 5AM
Sky (%).........71  66  65  71  73  69  78  81  79  84  85  86
Weather cov.....
Weather type....
Tstm cov........
Temp............37  33  31  29  29  28  28  28  28  27  27  27
RH..............82  87  94  96  99  100 97  100 99  99  100 99
20 FT wind dir..S   SE  E   E   SE  SE  E   E   E   E   E   E
20 FT wind spd..2   2   2   2   2   2   2   2   1   1   1   1
20 FT wind gust.6   5   5   5   5   5   5   4   4   2   2   2

.THURSDAY...

Sky/weather.........Mostly cloudy then becoming mostly sunny.
CWR.................0 percent.
Max temperature.....43-47.
Min humidity........53-57 percent.
Wind (20 ft)........
 Slope/valley.......Light winds.
 Ridgetop...........Southwest 5 to 10 mph.
Mixing height.......900 ft AGL early in the morning increasing to
                    3400 ft AGL in the afternoon.
Transport winds.....South 5 to 6 mph shifting to the southwest
                    around 5 mph late in the afternoon, then
                    shifting to the north late in the afternoon.

TIME (MST)      6 AM      9 AM      NOON      3 PM
Sky (%).........87        76        55        34
Weather cov.....
Weather type....NONE      NONE      NONE      NONE
Tstm cov........
Temp............25        32        42        44
RH..............100       96        67        54
20 FT wind......E 1G2     SE 1G2    S 1G5     SW 2G6

$$
Forecaster...Tesar
Requested by...Zachariah Sachs
Type of request...PRESCRIBED
.TAG 2526194.1/BYZ
.DELDT 11/19/25
.FormatterVersion 2.0.0
.EMAIL Zachariah.Sachs@usda.gov,james.m.ray@usda.gov,breck.klein@usda.gov