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Spot Forecast for Carter creek...USFS
National Weather Service Salt Lake City UT
529 AM MST Fri Dec 5 2025

Forecast is based on ignition time of 0600 MST on December 05.
If conditions become unrepresentative...contact the National Weather
Service.

.DISCUSSION...Moisture and instability are moving into northern
Utah this morning, bringing some light snow to the burn this
morning. Some snow will continue this afternoon, but overall it
will be a relative lull in precipitation. The heaviest snow with
the storm system is anticipated tonight into Saturday morning,
with increasing winds bringing some areas of blowing snow. Some
snow will continue Saturday afternoon before tapering off Saturday
night/Sunday morning. Anticipating between 6 and 14 inches of snow
at the burn site through Saturday night, with clearing indices
staying well above 500 both today and tomorrow. A more stable
airmass will lower clearing indices some for early next week.

.TODAY...

Sky/weather.........Mostly cloudy (85-95 percent cloud cover). Snow
                    likely, then chance of snow late in the
                    afternoon.
CWR.................30 percent.
Chance of pcpn......70 percent.
Max temperature.....28-32.
Min humidity........74-78 percent.
Wind (20 ft)........West winds 8-12 mph.
Mixing height.......2400 ft AGL.
   Climatology......20-30th Percentile.
Transport winds.....West winds 18-22 mph.
Clearing index......810.

.TONIGHT...

Sky/weather.........Mostly cloudy (90-100 percent cloud cover).
                    Chance of snow early in the evening, then snow
                    likely early in the evening. Snow late in the
                    evening. Patchy blowing snow late in the
                    evening. Areas of blowing snow overnight, then
                    patchy blowing snow early in the morning.
CWR.................80 percent.
Chance of pcpn......90 percent.
Min temperature.....20-24.
Max humidity........96-100 percent.
Wind (20 ft)........West winds 10-15 mph.
Mixing height.......1100 ft AGL.
Transport winds.....West winds 25-30 mph.

.SATURDAY...

Sky/weather.........Mostly cloudy (85-95 percent cloud cover).
                    Patchy blowing snow in the morning. Snow in the
                    morning, then snow likely late in the morning.
                    Chance of snow late in the afternoon.
CWR.................70 percent.
Chance of pcpn......90 percent.
Max temperature.....28-32.
Min humidity........82-86 percent.
Wind (20 ft)........West winds 12-18 mph.
Mixing height.......3500 ft AGL.
   Climatology......30-40th Percentile.
Transport winds.....West winds 35-40 mph.
Clearing index......1000+.

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Forecaster...Traphagan
Requested by...Solena probert
Type of request...PRESCRIBED
.TAG 2526805.3/SLC
.DELDT 12/05/25
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.EMAIL thomas.bolke@usda.gov,solena.probert@usda.gov