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FXUS66 KOTX 142304
AFDOTX

Area Forecast Discussion
National Weather Service Spokane WA
304 PM PST Fri Nov 14 2025

.KEY MESSAGES...

- Mountain snow through Friday night. Additional snow in the
  mountains Sunday into Monday. Minor travel impacts expected.

- Low impact and unsettled weather continues through next week.

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.SYNOPSIS...
Region will continue to have showers into Saturday morning.
Light snow is expected over mountain passes. A brief break
between weather systems on Saturday. Then another weather system
Saturday night into early Monday will bring additional light
precipitation including more light snow to mountain passes,
especially Sunday night into Monday morning.

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.DISCUSSION...
Tonight through Saturday Morning: The region is the back end of
the system. Showers will continue into Saturday morning with
mountain snow and low land rain showers. Snow levels are only
expected to drop to around 4000ft overnight. Washington Pass
can expect an additional inch through Saturday. Elsewhere rain
amounts of up to a tenth will be common, with near 0.30 to 0.50
an inch heading into the mountains zones and along WA/ID
border. Strong southerly flow ahead of the trough will bring
gusty winds across the Basin through Friday evening. Overnight
lows 30s to low 40s. Highs will be the upper 40s and 50s.

Saturday afternoon through Thursday: A weak ridge will bring a
brief dry period starting Saturday afternoon and last through
Sunday. Light showers will continue over the mountains. Another
trough will begin to impact the Cascades late Sunday into Monday
morning. It will bring another round of widespread precip to
the Inland Northwest. While it will usher in a colder air mass,
the trough has less moisture. Region wide has at least a 40%
chance of a tenth of an inch of precip. The highest probability
is over Southeast Washington and Lower Idaho Panhandle with at
least 70% chance. Ensembles are bringing snow levels down to
3000ft. Lowland locations could see snow overnight Monday into
Tuesday but will not expected to cause impacts for travel as
amounts region wide are only a couple tenths at most. The rest
of the period is looking benign has a ridge moves into the
region late Tuesday. Precip chances are looking very slim
through the weekend. Highs will dip into the 40s. Lows will be
in the upper 20s to 30s. /JDC

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.AVIATION...
00Z TAFs: A weak wave is passing through the region bringing
widespread mid to upper level cloud decks. Thicker and lower
cloud decks are over Northeast WA and North ID. A low level
gradient is bringing gusty winds across the Basin. With cool
overnight temps and moisture from previous days rain, another
round of MVFR ceilings are expected Saturday morning for EAT-
COE-PUW-SFF. GEG will also MVFR ceilings but could see IFR
ceilings also. Conditions expected to improve to VFR by Saturday
afternoon.

.FORECAST CONFIDENCE AND/OR ALTERNATE SCENARIOS: Moderate to
high confidence on the MVFR ceilings. Low confidence on the IFR
ceilings.

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Confidence descriptors:
Low - Less than a 30 percent chance
Moderate - 30 to 70 percent chance
High - Greater than a 70 percent chance

For additional probabilistic information for NWS Spokane airports,
please refer to the Aviation Dashboard on our webpage:
https:/www.weather.gov/otx/avndashboard

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.Preliminary Point Temps/PoPs...
Spokane        45  56  41  54  42  50 /  60  30  20  30  60  60
Coeur d`Alene  45  53  42  54  43  50 /  90  50  40  30  70  70
Pullman        44  56  40  54  42  50 /  30  40  10  40  80  70
Lewiston       48  59  43  57  46  55 /  20  20   0  30  80  60
Colville       37  55  38  52  37  49 /  80  30  60  50  60  60
Sandpoint      41  50  40  51  40  49 / 100  80  70  50  70  80
Kellogg        45  51  43  54  45  49 /  90  80  40  40  80  90
Moses Lake     44  60  44  57  41  54 /  20  10  10  20  40  20
Wenatchee      46  60  48  56  45  54 /  50  20  30  20  40  20
Omak           42  56  44  54  44  52 /  40  10  30  30  30  30

&&

.OTX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
WA...None.
ID...None.

&&

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