Spot Forecast
Issued by NWS Los Angeles, CA
Issued by NWS Los Angeles, CA
617 FNUS76 KLOX 152103 FWSLOX Spot Forecast for Falcon 9...VFD National Weather Service Los Angeles/Oxnard CA 203 PM PDT Thu Aug 15 2024 If conditions become unrepresentative, contact the National Weather Service. .DISCUSSION...An upper-level ridge of high pressure over southern CA will continue to bring a shallow marine layer depth over the launch area. The marine layer depth should be about 220 feet AGL (around 600 ft MSL) around the launch window. With the shallow marine layer, dense fog is likely from about 0700-0830 with some improvement to above 1 mile possible by launch time. Gusty NW winds 12-18 mph can be expected. Humidities will remain high through the period. .FRIDAY... Sky/weather.........Cloudy then becoming sunny. Patchy dense fog in the morning. Max temperature.....58 at launch...max 61. Min humidity........85 percent at launch...min 79 percent. Eye level winds.....Northwest 7-11 mph. Surface winds (mph).Northwest 12-18 mph. Wind (20 ft)........Northwest 12-18 mph. Mixing height.......800 ft AGL. Transport winds.....Northwest 12-13 mph. Swell height........Northwest swell 5-6 feet. Swell period........7-8 Seconds. Wind wave...........2-3 feet. Pcpn amount.........0.00 inches. Visibility..........0.29 early increasing to 10. Water temperature...55-57 SUNSET..............7:48 PM PDT TIME (PDT) 7AM 8AM 9AM 10A 11A 12P 1PM 2PM 3PM 4PM 5PM Sky (%).........90 90 90 90 10 10 10 10 10 10 90 Weather cov.....PTY PTY PTY PTY Weather type....FOG FOG FOG FOG Temp............54 57 58 60 61 61 61 61 60 60 58 RH..............89 89 85 82 79 80 81 81 83 80 86 20 FT wind dir..N NW NW NW NW NW NW NW NW NW NW 20 FT wind spd..12 12 12 12 12 12 12 18 18 18 18 20 FT wind gust.14 14 14 14 14 14 14 23 23 23 23 Eye lvl wnd dir.N NW NW NW NW NW NW NW NW NW NW Eye lvl wnd spd.7 7 7 7 7 7 7 11 11 11 11 Eye lvl wnd gst.8 8 8 8 8 8 8 14 14 14 14 Surface wnd dir.N NW NW NW NW NW NW NW NW NW NW Surface wnd spd.12 12 12 12 12 12 12 18 18 18 18 Surface wnd gst.14 14 14 14 14 14 14 23 23 23 23 Mix hgt (kft)...0.6 0.6 0.7 0.7 0.8 0.8 0.8 0.8 0.8 0.8 0.8 Transp wind dir.N NW NW NW NW NW NW NW NW NW NW Transp wind spd.12 12 13 13 13 13 13 13 13 13 13 Swell direction.N NW NW NW NW NW NW NW NW NW NW Swell hgt (ft)..6 6 6 6 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 Swell period (s)8 8 8 8 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 Wind wave (ft)..2 2 2 2 2 2 2 3 3 3 3 Visibility (sm)..29 .77 1.6 6 7 9 10 10 10 10 10 Water temp......56 56 56 56 56 56 56 56 56 56 56 $$ Forecaster...SIRARD Requested by...VFD Type of request...OTHER .TAG 2420222.0/LOX .DELDT 08/15/24 .FormatterVersion 2.0.0 .EMAIL 30ces.vecc.dispatchers@us.af.mil