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Spot Forecast for carpenter rd piles...usfws contractor
National Weather Service Twin Cities/Chanhassen MN
739 AM CST Wed Dec 24 2025

Forecast is based on ignition time of 0815 CST on December 24.
IF CONDITIONS BECOME UNREPRESENTATIVE...CONTACT THE NATIONAL WEATHER
SERVICE.

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

.DISCUSSION...For the Carpenter Rd Piles Rx Burn, temperatures
will begin in the mid-20s at ignition and warm to the low 30s this
afternoon. Relative humidity values will start in the 90 percents
and only fall to the mid-70 percents this afternoon. Skies will
remain mostly cloudy for a majority of today with with SE winds
between 5-10kts early. A weak disturbance does move through today
but should keep precip chances pinned to southern MN today.
However winds will shift to easterly by mid-afternoon then
northerly this evening.

.REST OF TODAY...

Sky/weather.........Mostly cloudy (65-75 percent).
Temperature.........24 at ignition...Max 33.
RH..................92 percent at ignition...Min 74 percent.
Wind (20 ft)........Winds southeast at 6 mph at
                    ignition...otherwise Southeast winds 5 to 6 mph
                    early in the morning becoming light.
Smoke dispersal.....Poor /5300 knot-ft/ at ignition. Max...poor
                    /8500 knot-ft/.
Mixing height.......500 ft AGL at ignition...otherwise 700 ft AGL.
Transport winds.....South 6 to 14 mph shifting to the southeast
                    around 3 mph late in the afternoon, then
                    shifting to the northeast 3 to 5 mph late in
                    the afternoon.

TIME (CST)      8AM 9AM 10A 11A 12P 1PM 2PM 3PM 4PM 5PM 6PM 7PM
Sky cover.......MC  MC  MC  MC  MC  MC  MC  MC  MC  MC  MC  MC
Weather cov.....
Weather type....
Tstm cov........
Temp............22  24  27  29  32  32  33  33  32  31  29  27
RH..............88  92  88  88  85  85  85  82  85  85  88  92
20 FT wind dir..SE  SE  SE  S   S   S   SE  E   E   NE  N   N
20 FT wind spd..5   6   6   6   6   5   3   3   3   3   3   3
20 FT wind gust.12  12  13  13  12  9   8   7   7   7   8   8
Mix hgt (kft)...0.5 0.5 0.6 0.7 0.7 0.6 0.6 0.4 0.4 0.3 0.3 0.4
Transp wind dir.S   S   S   S   S   S   S   SE  E   NE  NE  NE
Transp wind spd.12  12  12  14  12  8   6   3   3   5   6   6

.TONIGHT...

Sky/weather.........Mostly cloudy (55-65 percent) then becoming
                    partly cloudy (45-55 percent) then becoming
                    mostly cloudy (55-65 percent).
Temperature.........Min 19.
RH..................Max 100 percent.
Wind (20 ft)........Light winds becoming northeast 5 to 7 mph in
                    the late evening and overnight.
Smoke dispersal.....Poor (1600 knot-ft).
Mixing height.......300 ft AGL.
Transport winds.....Northeast 6 to 15 mph.

.CHRISTMAS DAY...

Sky/weather.........Mostly cloudy (80-90 percent). Slight chance of
                    very light freezing drizzle in the afternoon.
                    Slight chance of drizzle late in the afternoon.
Temperature.........Max 32.
RH..................Min 85 percent.
Wind (20 ft)........East winds 6 to 10 mph shifting to the
                    southeast around 10 mph with gusts to around 21
                    mph in the afternoon.
Smoke dispersal.....Poor (7600 knot-ft) early in the morning
                    increasing to good (31400 knot-ft) in the
                    afternoon.
Mixing height.......1500 ft AGL.
Transport winds.....East 14 to 23 mph shifting to the southeast
                    around 24 mph late in the afternoon.

$$
Forecaster...Dunleavy
Requested by...Keegan Mccafferty
Type of request...PRESCRIBED
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.DELDT 12/24/25
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.EMAIL k.mccafferty@nrp.eco