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Spot Forecast for Queeny Complex native beds...St. Louis County Parks forestry
National Weather Service Saint Louis MO
614 AM CDT Fri Oct 9 2026

Forecast is based on ignition time of 0600 CDT on October 09.
If conditions become unrepresentative, contact the
National Weather Service.

.DISCUSSION...
Dry and sunny conditions are expected throughout the day today.
The mixing height is expected to increase around 4600 feet this
afternoon, and a combination of good mixing and relatively weak
winds will produce fair to good smoke dispersal. The relative
humidity will be around 35 percent at ignition, but will
drop below 30 percent this afternoon.

.TODAY...

Sky/weather.........Sunny (0-5 percent).
Temperature.........85 at ignition...Max 90.
RH..................35 percent at ignition...Min 28 percent.
Eye level winds.....Winds around 3 mph using an adjustment factor
                    of 0.4.
Wind (20 ft)........Winds southeast at 3 mph at
                    ignition...otherwise South winds 5 to 7 mph
                    early in the morning becoming light, then
                    becoming south 5 to 7 mph late in the morning.
Mixing height.......2300 ft AGL at ignition...otherwise max 4600 ft
                    AGL.
Transport winds.....South 9 to 13 mph.
Smoke dispersal.....Poor /490 m/s-m/ at ignition. Max...good /7980
                    m/s-m/.

TIME (CDT)      6 AM   8 AM   10 AM  NOON   2 PM   4 PM
Sky (%).........3      0      1      2      2      2
Weather cov.....
Weather type....NONE   NONE   NONE   NONE   NONE   NONE
Tstm cov........
Temp............56     59     73     82     88     89
RH..............69     64     46     35     29     28
20 ft wind......SE 3   S 4    S 4    S 6    S 7    S 6
20 ft wind gust.6      8      9      11     12     11
Eye level wind..SE 1   S 2    S 2    S 3    S 3    S 3
Eye lvl wnd gst.3      4      4      5      6      5
Mix hgt (kft)...0.4    0.4    0.9    2.4    4.5    4.4
Transport wind..S 9    S 10   S 12   S 12   S 12   S 13
Vrate kt-ft/1K..3      3      9      24     45     49
Ventrate Cat....POOR   POOR   POOR   POOR   FAIR   FAIR

$$
Forecaster...Britt
Requested by...Jason Pratte
Type of request...PRESCRIBED
.TAG 2623471.0/LSX
.DELDT 10/09/26
.FormatterVersion 2.0.0