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Spot Forecast for CamRock2...Dane County Parks
National Weather Service Milwaukee/Sullivan WI
747 AM CDT Sat Apr 13 2024

Forecast is based on ignition time of 0900 CDT on April 13.

Please contact the National Weather Service if conditions become
unrepresentative or if you have questions/concerns about this forecast.

.DISCUSSION...

Temperatures will rise through the day climbing into the upper 60s by
mid to late this afternoon. West winds this morning will become south
to southwesterly by this afternoon. The south to southwest winds will
increase becoming breezy with gusts to 25mph expected. Minimum RH
values will fall to around 30 percent today with a slight chance to
fall as low as 25 percent as drier air mixes in during the afternoon.

.REST OF TODAY...

Sky/weather.........Sunny (5-15 percent).
Temperature.........48 at ignition...Max 68.
RH..................63 percent at ignition...Min 31 percent.
Wind (20 ft)........Winds west at 4 mph at ignition...otherwise
                    Light winds becoming southwest 5 to 12 mph late
                    in the morning.
Mixing height.......800 ft AGL at ignition...otherwise 3800 ft AGL.
Transport winds.....West 7 to 12 mph increasing to southwest 16 to
                    23 mph late in the afternoon.
Smoke dispersal.....Poor /5100 knot-ft/ at ignition.
                    Max...excellent /68900 knot-ft/.
Haines Index........5 or moderate potential for large plume
                    dominated fire growth at ignition...max 5.

TIME (CDT)      9AM 10A 11A 12P 1PM 2PM 3PM 4PM 5PM
Sky (%).........2   2   2   2   3   4   6   9   17
Weather cov.....
Weather type....
Tstm cov........
Temp............48  53  57  60  64  66  67  68  68
RH..............63  52  45  39  34  33  32  32  32
20 FT wind dir..W   W   SW  SW  SW  SW  SW  SW  S
20 FT wind spd..4   4   5   6   7   8   10  11  11
20 FT wind gust.6   7   10  10  11  12  14  17  17
Mix hgt (kft)...0.8 1.5 2.5 3.1 3.5 3.6 3.8 3.6 3.3
Transp wind dir.W   W   W   W   SW  SW  SW  SW  SW
Transp wind spd.7   8   10  12  12  16  18  22  23
Haines index....5   5   5   5   5   5   5   5   5
SDspl kt-ft/10005   11  23  31  35  51  61  69  67

$$
Forecaster...Patterson
Requested by...Lars Higdon
Type of request...PRESCRIBED
.TAG 2410604.0/MKX
.DELDT 04/13/24
.FormatterVersion 2.0.0
.EMAIL higdon.lars@countyofdane.com