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Spot Forecast for Baking Powder...Powder River Sheriff
National Weather Service Billings MT
643 PM MDT Tue Jul 2 2024

Forecast is based on forecast start time of 1900 MDT on July 02.
If conditions become unrepresentative...contact the National Weather
Service.

Please contact our office if you have questions
or concerns with this forecast.

.DISCUSSION...
Scattered showers and thunderstorms will be moving across the
region through about 9 PM this evening before diminishing to just
a few light showers or sprinkles. There is a cluster of
thundershowers in the Ashland area at this time moving southeast.
If this holds together it would impact the fire site (35% chance)
around 800-830 pm. Brief moderate rain and wind gusts to 35 mph
are possible with stronger thundershowers. Look for winds to
weaken and become terrain driven late tonight. For
Wednesday...look for a few isolated sprinkles possible in the
morning, with scattered showers/thunderstorms again in the
afternoon. West to northwest winds should prevail again Wednesday
into Wednesday evening. BT


.REST OF TONIGHT...

Sky/weather.........Partly cloudy. Slight chance of showers and
                    thunderstorms in the evening.
CWR.................13 percent.
LAL.................2...1 to 8 strikes/15 min/cell.
Min temperature.....52-56.
Max humidity........74-86 percent.
Wind (20 ft)........
 Slope/valley.......West northwest winds 5 to 15 mph with gusts to 25 mph. Gusty and erratic winds
                    expected near thunderstorms in the evening with gusts to 35 mph possible.
 Ridgetop...........West around 22 mph.
Mixing height.......5200 ft AGL early in the evening decreasing to
                    400 ft AGL overnight.
Transport winds.....West around 12 mph.

.WEDNESDAY...

Sky/weather.........Partly sunny. Chance of rain showers in the morning, then
                    rain showers likely and chance of thunderstorms
                    in the afternoon.
CWR.................18 percent.
LAL.................2...1 to 8 strikes/15 min/cell.
Max temperature.....73-77.
Min humidity........36-44 percent.
Wind (20 ft)........
 Slope/valley.......Northwest winds 6 to 12 mph. Gusty and erratic
                    winds expected near thunderstorms.
 Ridgetop...........West around 15 mph.
Mixing height.......400 ft AGL early in the morning increasing to
                    6100 ft AGL in the afternoon.
Transport winds.....Northwest around 9 mph.
Haines index........3.

.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...

Sky/weather.........Mostly cloudy. Chance of showers and
                    thunderstorms.
CWR.................13 percent.
LAL.................2...1 to 8 strikes/15 min/cell.
Min temperature.....50-54.
Max humidity........82-90 percent.
Wind (20 ft)........
 Slope/valley.......Northwest winds 6 to 12 mph. Gusty and erratic
                    winds expected near thunderstorms.
 Ridgetop...........Northwest around 15 mph.
Mixing height.......3500 ft AGL early in the evening decreasing to
                    400 ft AGL overnight.
Transport winds.....Northwest around 12 mph.

$$
Forecaster...Tesar
Requested by...Powder River Dispatch
Type of request...WILDFIRE
.TAG 2417252.0/BYZ
.DELDT 07/02/24
.FormatterVersion 2.0.0
.EMAIL slloyd@prcsheriff.com