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Spot Forecast for Cedar City Piles Markaghaunt...USFS
National Weather Service Salt Lake City UT
320 PM MST Mon Dec 29 2025

Forecast is based on ignition time of 1500 MST on December 29.
If conditions become unrepresentative...contact the National Weather
Service.

.DISCUSSION...High pressure over the area will maintain dry and
stable conditions featuring warming temperatures, light winds,
and poor mixing through Wednesday. Moisture will increase out of
the southwest Wednesday evening through Thursday night as a storm
system ejects across the area. Because the associated airmass will
be fairly mild, the burn site should see a dense snow, with
around 1-2 inches of accumulation from 0.35-0.5 inches of water
currently expected. Winds will increase a bit out of the southwest
with this storm, but are not expected to be very strong, and as a
result, clearing index may remain below 500. For the weekend, and
into the beginning of next week, the pattern looks to remain
active, but there is a lot of uncertainty in the details. At the
moment, precipitation looks to favor northern Utah more than
southern Utah, but can not rule out any precipitation at the burn
site during this time. Southwest winds should remain a bit
enhanced, but still not particularly strong, with gusts peaking
below 30 mph.


.REST OF TODAY...

Sky/weather.........Sunny (0-10 percent cloud cover).
CWR.................0 percent.
Chance of pcpn......0 percent.
Chance of lightning.0 percent.
Max temperature.....38-41.
Min humidity........29-32 percent.
Wind (20 ft)........Northeast winds 3-6 mph.
Mixing height.......900 ft AGL.
   Climatology......20-30th Percentile.
Transport winds.....Northeast around 10 mph.
Clearing index......70.

.TONIGHT...

Sky/weather.........Clear (0-10 percent cloud cover).
CWR.................0 percent.
Chance of pcpn......0 percent.
Chance of lightning.0 percent.
Min temperature.....19-22.
Max humidity........35-38 percent.
Wind (20 ft)........Variable winds 2-5 mph.
Mixing height.......100 ft AGL.
Transport winds.....East 8 to 9 mph.

.TUESDAY...

Sky/weather.........Mostly sunny (10-20 percent cloud cover).
CWR.................0 percent.
Chance of pcpn......0 percent.
Chance of lightning.0 percent.
Max temperature.....44-47.
Min humidity........21-24 percent.
Wind (20 ft)........Southeast winds 2-6 mph.
Mixing height.......1100 ft AGL.
   Climatology......20-30th Percentile.
Transport winds.....East around 7 mph.
Clearing index......70.

$$
Forecaster...Cheng
Requested by...Bode Mecham
Type of request...PRESCRIBED
.TAG 2528117.0/SLC
.DELDT 12/29/25
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.EMAIL bode.mecham@usda.gov