FNUS76 KOTX 241258 FWSOTX Spot Forecast for Beauty Cedar GNA TS Piles...USFS National Weather Service Spokane WA 558 AM PDT Fri Oct 24 2025 Forecast is based on ignition time of 0600 PDT on October 24. If conditions become unrepresentative...contact the National Weather Service. .DISCUSSION... Ventilation will be fair Friday afternoon with transport winds increasing out of the south to southwest and mixing heights peaking around 3000 feet. Rain is expected to hold off over the burn project through the evening with chances for wetting rains increasing late Friday night. Cold front passage will be between 2300 and 0100 hours with winds briefly becoming gusty out of the southwest. Winds will gradually decrease and shift back to the southeast through the early morning hours. Winds will remain out of the southeast through the morning, picking up again Saturday afternoon. The next round of precipitation arrives Saturday morning with high confidence for wetting rains. This also comes with a 15% chance for thunderstorms Saturday afternoon and evening. A stronger push of southwest winds is expected Saturday night into early Sunday morning. .TODAY... Sky/weather.........Partly sunny. CWR.................0 percent. Chance of lightning.0 percent. Max temperature.....Around 63. Min humidity........30-35 percent. Wind (20 ft)........Southeast 3 to 6 mph in the morning becoming south 5 to 9 mph after 1100 hours. Mixing height.......Inversion lifting between 1000-1100 hours, with mixing height as high as 3000 ft AGL between 1300-1500 hours. Transport winds.....Southeast 4 to 8 mph in the morning becoming south-southwest 8 to 12 mph after 1100 hours. .TONIGHT... Sky/weather.........Cloudy. A 60% chance of rain between 2000-2300, increasing to a 90% chance between 2300-0200, then decreasing to a 15% chance. Total rain accumulations between 0.06 and 0.15 inches. CWR.................60 percent. Chance of lightning.5 percent. Min temperature.....Around 41. Max humidity........100 percent. Wind (20 ft)........Southwest winds 6 to 11 mph with gusts up to 25 mph through 0200. Mixing height.......Falling to near the surface after 1700 hours. Transport winds.....Southwest 10 to 16 mph. .SATURDAY... Sky/weather.........Mostly cloudy. 15% chance of rain in the early morning, increasing to a 60% chance at 0800 hours and to a 100% chance by 11 hours. Total rain accumulations between 0.40 and 0.70 inches. CWR.................90 percent. Chance of lightning.5 percent in the morning increasing to 15 percent in the afternoon and evening. Max temperature.....Around 50. Min humidity........81 percent. Wind (20 ft)........Southeast 3 to 7 mph increasing to southeast 6 to 11 mph around 1500. Gusts up to 25 mph in the afternoon. Mixing height.......Inversion lifting around 1000 hours with mixing height as high as 3500 ft AGL 1300-1500 hours. Transport winds.....South 9 to 14 mph. .FORECAST DAYS 3 THROUGH 5... .SUNDAY... Cooler. Rain with snow likely. Lows in the mid 30s. Highs in the mid 40s. Southwest winds 7 to 12 mph. .MONDAY... Rain and snow. Lows in the lower 30s. Highs in the lower 40s. Southwest winds around 6 mph. .TUESDAY... Mostly cloudy. Chance of rain and snow. Lows around 30. Highs in the mid 40s. Light winds. $$ Forecaster...VT Requested by...Patrick Warker Type of request...PRESCRIBED .TAG 2524299.1/OTX .DELDT 10/24/25 .FormatterVersion 2.0.0 .EMAIL patrick.warker@usda.gov,evan.a.ratcliffe@usda.gov,Aaron.Babin@usda.gov