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Spot Forecast for Lake Farm Rx...Dane County Parks
National Weather Service Milwaukee/Sullivan WI
625 AM CDT Thu Oct 30 2025

Forecast is based on ignition time of 0600 CDT on October 30.

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

.DISCUSSION...

Patchy fog and low clouds may linger into the middle morning
hours before dissipating. Otherwise, expect partly cloudy skies by
this afternoon, with light north winds becoming northwest later
in the day. Relative humidity values should drop to around 65
percent by noon CDT, with minimum values around 50 to 55 percent
by 2 PM to 3 PM CDT this afternoon.

Mixing heights should remain below 3000 feet AGL until around 1
PM CDT this afternoon, then top out around 3600 feet AGL by 3 PM
CDT. Smoke dispersal values should rise into the fair category,
above 11000 knot-feet, by 11 AM CDT this morning and top out
around 25500 knot-feet by 3 PM CDT this afternoon.

.TODAY...

Sky/weather.........Partly sunny (45-55 percent) then becoming
                    mostly cloudy (70-80 percent).
Temperature.........37 at ignition...Max 53.
RH..................96 percent at ignition...Min 56 percent.
Wind (20 ft)........Winds northwest at 2 mph at
                    ignition...otherwise North winds around 5 mph
                    becoming light.
Mixing height.......400 ft AGL at ignition...otherwise 3600 ft AGL.
Transport winds.....North 7 to 10 mph.
Smoke dispersal.....Poor /3300 knot-ft/ at ignition. Max...fair
                    /25500 knot-ft/.

TIME (CDT)      6AM 7AM 8AM 9AM 10A 11A 12P 1PM 2PM 3PM 4PM 5PM
Sky (%).........31  31  33  35  37  42  48  53  59  66  72  73
Weather cov.....
Weather type....
Tstm cov........
Temp............37  37  39  41  43  47  50  52  52  53  53  52
RH..............96  96  92  89  86  74  66  61  61  57  57  59
20 FT wind dir..NW  NW  N   N   N   N   N   N   N   NW  NW  NW
20 FT wind spd..2   4   5   5   5   5   5   5   5   5   5   4
20 FT wind gust.6   6   8   7   7   7   7   8   8   8   8   7
Mix hgt (kft)...0.4 0.4 0.5 0.6 1.0 1.3 2.1 3.0 3.4 3.6 3.6 1.7
Transp wind dir.N   N   N   N   N   N   N   N   N   NW  NW  NW
Transp wind spd.9   9   9   10  9   9   8   8   7   8   8   8
SDspl kt-ft/10003   4   4   5   8   11  15  21  20  25  26  12

$$
Forecaster...Wood
Requested by...Chris Cole
Type of request...PRESCRIBED
.TAG 2524759.0/MKX
.DELDT 10/30/25
.FormatterVersion 2.0.0
.EMAIL cole.christopher@danecounty.gov