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FNUS28 KWNS 241946
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Day 3-8 Fire Weather Outlook
NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK
0245 PM CDT Wed Apr 24 2024

Valid 261200Z - 021200Z

A pair of mid-level troughs will traverse the southern Plains Friday
into this weekend, supporting surface cyclone development and a
trailing dryline surging eastward across the southern High Plains
each day. Critically dry and windy conditions are expected, with 70
percent Critical probabilities maintained for portions of the
southern High Plains where dry and windy conditions will overlap
through much of the afternoon for both Friday and Saturday. By
Sunday, the second mid-level trough will eject into the middle
Mississippi Valley region, prompting some weakening of the surface
winds behind the dryline over the southern High Plains, where only
40 percent Critical probabilities have been maintained. Thereafter,
upper-level ridging will set in over the Plains states, with dry
conditions persisting over the southern High Plains. Another
mid-level trough will impinge on the Interior West by the middle of
next week. Dry and windy conditions should overspread the region,
though questions remain regarding fuel receptiveness, precluding the
addition of Critical probabilities.

..Squitieri.. 04/24/2024

...Please see www.spc.noaa.gov/fire for graphic product...

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