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Spot Forecast for Corral Creek
National Weather Service Missoula MT
429 PM MDT Wed Sep 3 2025

Forecast is based on forecast start time of 1700 MDT on September 04.
If conditions become unrepresentative...contact the National Weather
Service.


.DISCUSSION...The main change to the forecast was to lower temperatures
and raise humidity due to the combined residual and Canadian smoke.
The easterly winds will help to thin the smoke by later tonight. Also
by late afternoon there could be a fair amount of mid-level cloud
cover which could also reduce temperature rise. The easterly winds
are forecast to push much of smoke to the west, but lingering haze
is possible Thursday night. The easterly winds will be the strongest in
the upper elevations between 9 pm and 3 am Friday. It will be slightly
milder and drier on Friday. The east winds will diminish a bit but not
totally go away Friday. The wind/pressure gradient stays easterly
through Saturday. That means there could be an uptick in the
east winds in the upper elevations Friday night, generally between 15
to 20 mph with an RH recovery of 37% in the thermal belt by Saturday
morning. The easterlies will lessen by Saturday afternoon to around
5 to 10 mph. We are still expecting an increased trend in cloud cover,
humidity and shower/storm activity from Sunday into next week. There is
a 70 percent chance for a wetting rain (>0.09") for the 48 hour period
ending next Thursday morning.

.THURSDAY...

* Sky/Weather.........Partly cloudy and Smoky.
* CWR (> 0.10 Inch)...0 percent.
* Chance Lightning....0 percent.
* Max Temperature.....75-78.
* Min Humidity........26-32 percent.
* Wind (20 ft)........Southeast 7 to 10 mph with gusts to 15 mph in
   the morning, becoming East 6 to 12 mph in the afternoon.
* Mixing Height.......5000 ft agl.
* Mixing Winds........East 15 mph.
* Precip Amount.......0.00 inches.

.THURSDAY NIGHT...

* Sky/Weather.........Partly cloudy. Haze.
* CWR (> 0.10 Inch)...0 percent.
* Chance Lightning....0 percent.
* Min Temperature.....50-55.
* Max Humidity........49-54 percent.
* Wind (20 ft)........Upper: East 14 to 18 mph with gusts to 24 mph,
                       becoming Southeast 10 to 16 mph by morning.
                      Lower: East-southeast 6 to 13 mph becoming
                        East 4 to 6 mph by morning.
* Mixing Height.......3000 ft agl decreasing to 1500 ft agl overnight
                       except around 500 feet towards the valley floor.
* Mixing Winds........East 20 mph evening, Southeast 18 mph overnight.
* Precip Amount.......0.00 inches.

.FRIDAY...

* Sky/Weather.........Mostly sunny. Haze in the morning.
* CWR (> 0.10 Inch)...0 percent.
* Chance Lightning....0 percent.
* Max Temperature.....76-80.
* Min Humidity........22-27 percent.
* Wind (20 ft)........Upper: Southeast 8 to 15 mph in the morning
                        becoming northeast 5 to 9 mph in afternoon.
                  Lower: Southeast 4 to 6 mph becoming
                        East-southeast 3 to 7 mph.
* Mixing Height.......2500 ft agl increasing to 5500 ft agl in the
  afternoon.
* Mixing Winds........Southeast 10 mph morning, Northeast 10 mph in
                       the afternoon.
* Precip Amount.......0.00 inches.

$$
Forecaster...Noble
Requested by...Greg Anderson
Type of request...WILDFIRE
.TAG 2520366.16/MSO
.DELDT 09/03/25
.FormatterVersion 2.0.0
.EMAIL clint.mendenhall@usda.gov,julian.wearing@usda.gov,gregory.j.anderson@usda.gov,michael-han.samaniego@usda.gov,andrew.bidwell@usda.gov,jacob.n.fallis@usda.gov,ryan.nipp@usda.gov