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Spot Forecast for Armbruster RX...State of South Dakota
National Weather Service Aberdeen SD
935 AM CDT Wed May 1 2024

Forecast is based on ignition time of 1100 CDT on May 01.
If conditions become unrepresentative...contact the National Weather
Service.

.DISCUSSION...
While dry conditons were initially forecast through the daytime
hours, we have added a 20 percent chance of showers after 4 PM.
Precipitation amounts 0.02 inches or less are expected from 4 PM
until 8 PM. Current winds are out of the west to west-southwest
at 10 to 15 mph at 930 AM. Winds will slowly diminish this
afternoon, and be less than 10 mph shortly after 12 PM. Relative
humidity values will fall into the 30 percent range by mid
afternoon. Precipitation amounts of around 0.10 to 0.20 are
expected tonight over the Armbuster RX area.

.REST OF TODAY...

Sky/weather.........Partly sunny (45-55 percent) then becoming
                    cloudy (90-100 percent). Slight chance of rain
                    showers late in the afternoon.
CWR.................6 percent.
Chance of pcpn......20 percent.
LAL.................1.
Max temperature.....Around 61.
Min humidity........35 percent.
Wind (20 ft)........West winds 7 to 13 mph shifting to the south 7
                    to 8 mph late in the afternoon.
Mixing height.......2700-4800 ft agl.
Transport winds.....West 9 to 18 mph shifting to the southwest 7 to
                    8 mph late in the afternoon.
Smoke dispersal.....Poor (28600 knot-ft) early in the morning
                    increasing to fair (46400 knot-ft) in the
                    afternoon.
Haines Index........5 (moderate).

TIME (CDT)      11A 12P 1PM 2PM 3PM 4PM 5PM
Sky (%).........18  33  38  73  81  85  94
Weather cov.....                    SCH SCH
Weather type....                    RW  RW
Tstm cov........
Chc of pcpn (%).0   0   0   10  10  20  20
Temp............51  54  58  60  61  61  60
RH..............61  52  42  39  36  35  37
20 FT wind dir..W   W   W   W   SW  SW  S
20 FT wind spd..13  12  9   8   7   7   8
20 FT wind gust.20  17  14  12  9   10  14
Mix hgt (kft)...2.7 3.3 3.8 4.0 4.4 4.8 4.1
Smoke Dispersal.FR  FR  FR  PR  PR  PR  PR

$$
Forecaster...KF
Requested by...Brett Blank
Type of request...PRESCRIBED
.TAG 2412913.0/ABR
.DELDT 05/01/24
.FormatterVersion 2.0.0
.EMAIL brett.blank@state.sd.us