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Spot Forecast for McCarthy Rx...Dane County Parks
National Weather Service Milwaukee/Sullivan WI
642 AM CST Thu Nov 6 2025

Forecast is based on ignition time of 0700 CST on November 06.

Please contact the National Weather Service if conditions become
unrepresentative or if you have questions/concerns about this forecast.

.DISCUSSION...
Temperatures will climb to the mid 50s today with decent mixing to
around 2500 ft or so and good smoke dispersal. While winds will
start as light they will certainly increase from the south toward
the late afternoon. Meanwhile, minimum RH will be around 30% but
could fall as low as 25% if we manage to mix a bit better than
expected.

.REST OF TODAY...

Sky/weather.........Mostly sunny (25-35 percent) then becoming
                    mostly cloudy (70-80 percent).
Temperature.........31 at ignition...Max 55.
RH..................75 percent at ignition...Min 30 percent.
Wind (20 ft)........Winds south at 2 mph at ignition...otherwise
                    Light winds becoming south 6 to 10 mph with
                    gusts to around 18 mph in the late morning and
                    afternoon.
Mixing height.......400 ft AGL at ignition...otherwise 2500 ft AGL.
Transport winds.....South 5 to 13 mph increasing to 15 to 20 mph in
                    the afternoon.
Smoke dispersal.....Poor /1500 knot-ft/ at ignition. Max...good
                    /42300 knot-ft/.

TIME (CST)      7AM 8AM 9AM 10A 11A 12P 1PM 2PM 3PM 4PM 5PM
Sky (%).........14  50  70  79  74  72  78  80  82  82  82
Weather cov.....
Weather type....
Tstm cov........
Temp............31  35  41  46  49  52  53  54  54  52  49
RH..............75  66  57  49  42  36  33  31  31  32  37
20 FT wind dir..S   S   S   S   S   S   S   S   S   S   S
20 FT wind spd..2   2   4   6   7   9   9   10  10  9   8
20 FT wind gust.    4   6   10  12  14  16  17  18  18  16
Mix hgt (kft)...0.4 0.3 0.6 1.0 1.4 2.1 2.4 2.5 2.1 0.9 0.7
Transp wind dir.SE  S   S   S   S   S   S   S   S   S   S
Transp wind spd.5   6   8   10  13  17  18  20  20  15  15
SDspl kt-ft/10002   2   4   9   16  31  38  42  35  12  9

$$
Forecaster...Kuroski
Requested by...Chris Cole
Type of request...PRESCRIBED
.TAG 2525276.0/MKX
.DELDT 11/06/25
.FormatterVersion 2.0.0
.EMAIL Cole.Christopher@countyofdane.com