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Spot Forecast for Palm Bay Degroodt...Palm Bay Fire Rescue
National Weather Service Melbourne FL
1040 AM EDT Thu Apr 24 2025

Forecast is based on forecast start time of 1100 EDT on April 24.
If conditions become unrepresentative, contact the National Weather
Service.

.DISCUSSION...

Dry weather is forecast through this week and weekend with high
pressure (~1023mb) over the southwest Atlantic. Sensitive fire
weather conditions are expected with east winds forecast to
increase into each afternoon and evening at 10-15mph with gusts to
20-25mph with the east coast sea breeze. Minimum RH values in the
upper 40s to low 50s are expected today and Friday with minimum RH
values in the mid to upper 40s Saturday and Sunday. Dispersion
values will be Generally Good to Very Good today and Friday, in
addition to, Poor to Generally Good on Saturday. Afternoon highs
in the low to mid 80s are forecast with upper 80s forecast on
Sunday under partly to mostly sunny skies.

.REST OF TODAY...

Sky/weather.........Mostly sunny (25-35 percent).
Chance of pcpn......0 percent.
Max temperature.....Around 84.
Min humidity........49 percent.
Wind (20 ft)........East winds 10 to 15 mph.
Mixing height.......4200 ft AGL.
Transport winds.....East 13 to 15 mph.
Dispersion index....67 decreasing to 52 in the afternoon.
LVORI...............1.

TIME (EDT)      11A 12P 1PM 2PM 3PM 4PM 5PM
Sky (%).........38  25  26  26  24  22  25
Weather cov.....
Weather type....
Tstm cov........
Chc of pcpn (%).0   0   0   0   0   0   0
Temp............80  81  83  83  84  83  83
RH..............56  54  51  51  49  51  51
20 FT wind dir..E   E   E   E   E   E   E
20 FT wind spd..10  13  14  14  15  15  15
20 FT wind gust.15  17  20  22  22  22  21
Mix hgt (kft)...4.1 4.2 4.2 4.2 4.1 4.0 4.0
Transp wind dir.E   E   E   E   E   E   E
Transp wind spd.14  13  13  14  15  15  15
Dispersion idx..67  50  48  52  55  54  55
LVORI...........1   1   1   1   1   1   1

.TONIGHT...

Sky/weather.........Partly cloudy (25-35 percent).
Chance of pcpn......0 percent.
Min temperature.....Around 66.
Max humidity........90 percent.
Wind (20 ft)........East winds 6 to 14 mph.
Mixing height.......3500 ft AGL decreasing to 400 ft AGL early in
                    the evening.
Transport winds.....East 8 to 15 mph.
Dispersion index....52 decreasing to 7 early in the evening.
LVORI...............1 increasing to 5.

TIME (EDT)      6 PM   8 PM   10 PM  MIDNGT 2 AM   4 AM
Sky (%).........23     26     34     30     26     23
Weather cov.....
Weather type....NONE   NONE   NONE   NONE   NONE   NONE
Tstm cov........
Chc of pcpn (%).0      0      0      0      0      0
Temp............81     77     72     70     69     67
RH..............54     62     73     78     81     84
20 ft wind......E 14   E 10   E 9    E 8    E 7    E 6
20 ft wind gust.18     15     13     13     12     10
Mix hgt (ft)....3600   400    400    500    400    400
Transport wind..E 15   E 13   E 12   E 12   E 10   E 9
Dispersion idx..53     9      8      8      6      4
LVORI...........1      3      3      4      4      5

.FRIDAY...

Sky/weather.........Sunny (15-25 percent).
Chance of pcpn......0 percent.
Max temperature.....Around 84.
Min humidity........51 percent.
Wind (20 ft)........East winds 7 to 13 mph.
Mixing height.......1100 ft AGL increasing to 4200 ft AGL in the
                    late morning and early afternoon, then
                    decreasing to 0 ft AGL late in the afternoon
                    increasing to 3600 ft AGL late in the
                    afternoon.
Transport winds.....East 9 to 16 mph becoming north around 0 mph
                    late in the afternoon.
Dispersion index....5 increasing to 16 early in the morning, then
                    increasing to 55 late in the morning increasing
                    to 73 late in the morning decreasing to 57
                    decreasing to 0 late in the afternoon.
LVORI...............6 decreasing to 4 early in the morning, then
                    decreasing to 2 in the late morning and
                    afternoon increasing to 3 late in the
                    afternoon.

TIME (EDT)      6 AM   8 AM   10 AM  NOON   2 PM   4 PM
Sky (%).........21     20     26     24     15     17
Weather cov.....
Weather type....NONE   NONE   NONE   NONE   NONE   NONE
Tstm cov........
Chc of pcpn (%).0      0      0      0      0      0
Temp............66     69     78     82     84     83
RH..............90     84     64     55     51     53
20 ft wind......E 7    E 7    E 8    E 12   E 13   E 13
20 ft wind gust.12     12     15     20     21     20
Mix hgt (ft)....400    1100   3600   4200   4200   BLW100
Transport wind..E 9    E 10   E 16   E 15   E 15   N 0
Dispersion idx..5      16     69     56     57     0
LVORI...........6      4      1      1      1      2

.FORECAST DAYS 3 THROUGH 5...
.SATURDAY...
Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 60s. Highs in the mid 80s. East
winds around 6 mph.
.SUNDAY...
Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 60s. Highs in the upper 80s.
Southeast winds around 5 mph.
.MONDAY...
Mostly clear. Chance of showers. Lows in the upper 60s. Highs in
the mid 80s. East winds around 6 mph.

$$
Forecaster...Fehling
Requested by...Alexandra Nicholas
Type of request...WILDFIRE
.TAG 2511670.0/MLB
.DELDT 04/24/25
.FormatterVersion 2.0.0
.EMAIL alexandra.nicholas@palmbayflorida.org