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Spot Forecast for China Ridge RX...USFS
National Weather Service Hanford CA
805 PM PDT Wed May 1 2024

Forecast is based on ignition time of 1000 PDT on May 02.
If conditions become unrepresentative...contact the National Weather
Service.

.DISCUSSION...
Temperatures will trend a few degrees warmer through the end
of the work week. Dry weather will prevail through Friday then
a chance of precipitation develops Saturday and continues into
Sunday. High temperatures are forecast to be around 10 to 15
degrees below normal by Sunday. Winds are expected to increase on
Saturday morning from the Southwest at around 25mph gusting up to
40 mph Saturday afternoon. Winds diminish by early Sunday morning
to around 10 mph from the west. Rainfall amount with the upcoming
storm are expected to be between 0.75 to 1 inch of rainfall
mainly on Saturday afternoon and Saturday night. There is a 50 to
60% chance of getting 0.75 of rainfall. There is around 70%
chances (7 out of 10 chances) of getting 0.50 inches mainly
Saturday afternoon into Saturday night. RH will be near 100% on
Saturday afternoon as the weather system move through, decreasing
rapidly to around 35% on Sunday morning.


.THURSDAY...

Sky/weather.........Sunny (0-5 percent).
Max temperature.....Around 69.
Min humidity........34 percent.
Eye level winds.....West winds up to 8 mph.
Surrounding ridge...West at around 10 mph.
Mixing height.......4600 ft AGL.
Transport winds.....Northwest around 12 mph.

.THURSDAY NIGHT...

Sky/weather.........Clear (0-10 percent).
Min temperature.....Around 49.
Max humidity........70 percent.
Eye level winds.....Northwest winds 5 to 8 mph shifting to the
                    north up to 4 mph overnight.
Surrounding ridge...Southwest shifting easterly at 5mph.
Mixing height.......200 ft AGL. Transport winds.....North around
9 mph.

.FRIDAY...

Sky/weather.........Sunny (0-5 percent).
Max temperature.....Around 69.
Min humidity........42 percent.
Eye level winds.....Northeast winds up to 4 mph shifting to the
                    west 5 to 6 mph in the afternoon.
Surrounding ridge...West at around 10 mph.
Mixing height.......4600 ft AGL.
Transport winds.....West around 8 mph.

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Forecaster...CASTRO
Requested by...David Reynolds
Type of request...PRESCRIBED
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.DELDT 05/02/24
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.EMAIL patrick.green@usda.gov,david.reynolds@usda.gov,bradley.walker@usda.gov