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Spot Forecast for Ring Neck Marsh...Clinton County Conservation
National Weather Service Quad Cities IA/IL
924 AM CDT Mon Apr 15 2024

Forecast is based on ignition time of 1000 CDT on April 15.
If conditions become unrepresentative...contact the
National Weather Service Quad Cities at (563) 386-3815.

.DISCUSSION...

Dry conditions continue today before a large system moves in for
tonight, lasting through early Wednesday, bringing widespread
showers and thunderstorms Tuesday and Tuesday night. For today,
abundant sunshine will once again help minimum RH values dip to the
20 to 30 percent range. Easterly winds around 10 to 15 mph are
expected to develop late this morning lasting into the evening
hours.

Widespread rainfall is expected with the upcoming system, with total
rainfall amounts between 1 to 2 inches likely, with heaviest
rainfall expected north of the Highway 30 corridor. Fire danger
threat will remain low throughout the area this week.

The Grassland Fire Danger Index -GFDI- does not account for
precipitation that occurs or any snow on the ground. Please
make appropriate adjustments.


.REST OF TODAY...

Sky/weather.........Sunny (10-20 percent).
Chance of pcpn......0 percent.
LAL.................No Tstms.
Begin/end of pcpn...
Max temperature.....Around 78.
Min humidity........24 percent.
Max apparent temp...78.
Eye level winds.....East winds 5 to 10 mph.
Wind shift..........
Wind (20 ft)........East winds 9 to 12 mph.
Mixing height.......1700 increasing to 4300 ft AGL.
Transport winds.....East 14 to 16 mph.
GFDI................5.
Haines Index........4 to 5 or low to moderate potential for large
                    plume dominated fire growth.

TIME (CDT)      10A 11A 12P 1PM 2PM 3PM 4PM 5PM
Sky (%).........26  6   4   1   0   0   0   1
Weather cov.....
Weather type....
Tstm cov........
Chc of pcpn (%).0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0
LAL.............1   1   1   1   1   1   1   1
Temp............62  67  70  73  76  77  78  78
RH..............46  40  33  30  26  25  24  26
Aparnt tmp (F)..62  67  70  73  76  77  78  78
20 FT wind dir..NE  E   E   E   E   E   E   E
20 FT wind spd..9   10  12  12  12  12  12  10
20 FT wind gust.15  16  16  16  16  16  16  16
Eye lvl wnd dir.NE  E   E   E   E   E   E   E
Eye lvl wnd spd.5   6   7   7   7   7   7   6
Eye lvl wnd gst.9   10  10  10  10  10  10  10
Mix hgt (kft)...1.7 2.7 3.0 3.3 3.9 4.1 4.3 4.3
Transp wind dir.E   E   E   E   E   E   E   E
Transp wind spd.15  16  16  15  14  14  14  15
GFDI............3   4   5   6   7   7   7   7
Haines index....4   4   4   5   5   5   5   5

$$
Forecaster...Gunkel
Requested by...Darin Voss
Type of request...PRESCRIBED
.TAG 2410912.0/DVN
.DELDT 04/15/24
.FormatterVersion 2.0.0
National Weather Service Weather Forecast Office
