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Spot Forecast for Manakowski Prairie...Clinton County Conservation
National Weather Service Quad Cities IA/IL
938 AM CDT Tue Apr 30 2024

Forecast is based on ignition time of 1100 CDT on April 30.
If conditions become unrepresentative...contact the
National Weather Service Quad Cities at (563) 386-3815.

.DISCUSSION...

The pattern becomes active again tonight through the end of the
week, with several rounds of showers and storms expected.
With the rainfall over the last few days and much of the area
greening up, the fire danger will remain low.

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 (15-25 percent).
Chance of pcpn......10 percent.
LAL.................No Tstms.
Begin/end of pcpn...None
Max temperature.....Around 75.
Min humidity........45 percent.
Max apparent temp...75.
Eye level winds.....Souheast during the morning turning to the south winds up to 9 mph.
Wind shift..........Shifting to the south around noon
Wind (20 ft)........South winds 7 to 15 mph.
Mixing height.......4900 ft AGL.
Transport winds.....South 8 to 17 mph increasing to 20 to 25 mph
                    late in the afternoon.
GFDI................1.
Haines Index........4 or low potential for large plume dominated
                    fire growth.

TIME (CDT)      11A 12P 1PM 2PM 3PM 4PM 5PM
Sky (%).........9   11  12  17  21  25  27
Weather cov.....    M   M   M   M   M   M
Weather type....    M   M   M   M   M   M
Tstm cov........    M   M   M   M   M   M
Chc of pcpn (%).0   0   0   0   10  10  10
LAL.............1   1   1   1   1   1   1
Temp............61  64  68  70  73  74  75
RH..............65  63  57  53  48  46  46
Aparnt tmp (F)..61  64  68  70  73  74  75
20 FT wind dir..S   S   S   S   S   S   S
20 FT wind spd..7   8   9   10  13  15  15
20 FT wind gust.    13  14  16  20  23  23
Eye lvl wnd dir.S   S   S   S   S   S   S
Eye lvl wnd spd.4   5   5   6   8   9   9
Eye lvl wnd gst.    8   8   10  12  14  14
Mix hgt (kft)...2.1 2.5 3.0 3.7 4.5 4.9 4.5
Transp wind dir.S   S   S   S   S   S   S
Transp wind spd.8   10  13  15  17  20  22
GFDI............0   0   0   0   0   1   1
Haines index....4   4   4   4   4   4   4

$$
Forecaster...Cousins
Requested by...Darin Voss
Type of request...PRESCRIBED
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.DELDT 04/30/24
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