Spot Forecast
Issued by NWS San Joaquin Valley, CA
Issued by NWS San Joaquin Valley, CA
561 FNUS76 KHNX 171950 FWSHNX Spot Forecast for China Ridge Underburn...U.S. Forest Service National Weather Service Hanford CA 1250 PM PDT Thu Apr 17 2025 Forecast is based on ignition time of 0900 PDT on April 18. If conditions become unrepresentative...contact the National Weather Service. .DISCUSSION...Temperatures will recover some over the burn site on Friday then a warming and drying trend will take place this weekend. Dry weather and above normal temperatures will prevail between Saturday and the middle of next week. .FRIDAY... Sky/weather.........Sunny (5-15 percent). Max temperature.....62-64. Min humidity........47-52 percent. Mixing height.......Rising to around 5000 ft AGL. Transport winds.....Northwest 9 mph. TIME (PDT) 9AM 10A 11A 12P 1PM 2PM 3PM 4PM 5PM Sky (%).........8 3 9 6 6 10 10 12 12 Weather cov..... Weather type.... Tstm cov........ Temp............53 56 57 58 60 60 61 61 61 RH..............64 57 53 53 51 53 51 51 50 Mix hgt (kft)...2.0 2.9 3.9 4.1 4.5 4.9 4.8 4.9 4.4 Transp wind dir.NW NW W NW NW NW NW NW NW Transp wind spd.5 6 7 8 8 9 9 9 9 .FRIDAY NIGHT... Sky/weather.........Mostly clear (0-10 percent). Min temperature.....45-47. Max humidity........55-60 percent. Mixing height.......Lowering to below 500 ft AGL. Transport winds.....East 7 mph. TIME (PDT) 6PM 7PM 8PM 9PM 10P 11P MID 1AM 2AM 3AM 4AM 5AM Sky (%).........12 12 4 4 4 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 Weather cov..... Weather type.... Tstm cov........ Temp............60 58 55 53 52 51 50 49 49 49 49 49 RH..............49 53 57 52 48 44 42 40 39 37 37 37 Mix hgt (kft)...3.7 2.2 0.7 0.3 0.3 0.6 0.5 0.6 0.6 0.6 0.5 0.6 Transp wind dir.NW NW NW N NE NE E E E E E E Transp wind spd.8 7 7 6 5 5 5 6 6 6 7 7 .SATURDAY... Sky/weather.........Sunny (0-10 percent). Max temperature.....66-68. Min humidity........35-40 percent. Mixing height.......Rising to around 5500 ft AGL. Transport winds.....Southwest 7 mph. TIME (PDT) 6AM 7AM 8AM 9AM 10A 11A 12P 1PM 2PM 3PM 4PM 5PM Sky (%).........2 2 3 3 3 0 0 0 3 3 3 9 Weather cov..... Weather type.... Tstm cov........ Temp............49 50 52 55 58 61 63 64 65 65 65 64 RH..............37 37 38 37 37 38 38 41 41 43 43 45 Mix hgt (kft)...0.5 0.6 1.0 2.0 3.2 4.3 5.0 5.4 5.6 5.7 5.5 4.9 Transp wind dir.E E E SE S S SW SW SW W W W Transp wind spd.7 6 6 6 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 $$ Forecaster...DAS Requested by...Bradley Walker Type of request...PRESCRIBED .TAG 2510889.0/HNX .DELDT 04/18/25 .FormatterVersion 2.0.0 .EMAIL david.reynolds@usda.gov,bradley.walker@usda.gov