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Spot Forecast for BUZZARD WILDFIRE...KERN COUNTY FIRE DEPT
National Weather Service Hanford CA
559 PM PDT Sun Aug 9 2026

Forecast is based on forecast start time of 0600 PDT on August 10.
If conditions become unrepresentative...contact the National Weather
Service.

.DISCUSSION...
Slightly cooler temperatures tomorrow with about 2-4 degrees of
cooling for afternoon max values. This slight cooling will allow
minimum relative humidity increase a few percentage points and
trend higher by later this week. Wind will remain terrain and
diurnally driven, with breezy wind gusts over the ridge-tops. The
combined hot weather and low humidity forecasted indicates
elevated fire risk will continue for another day or two.


.MONDAY...

Sky/weather.........Mostly sunny (25-35 percent).
Max temperature.....93-95.
Min humidity........20-22 percent.
Eye level winds.....Light and variable winds 2-4 mph in the
                    morning, becoming northwest 4-8 mph in the
                    afternoon.
Surrounding ridge...West 6-10 mph with gusts to 16 mph.
Mixing height.......Rising to 9500 ft AGL.
Transport winds.....West around 6 mph.
Wind (20 ft)........Light winds 3-6 mph in the morning, becoming
                    northwest 5-9 mph in the afternoon.

.MONDAY NIGHT...

Sky/weather.........Partly cloudy (20-30 percent).
Min temperature.....71-73.
Max humidity........36-38 percent.
Eye level winds.....Northwest 3-6 mph in the evening, becoming
                    light and variable 2-4 mph after Midnight.
Surrounding ridge...West to Northwest 5-8 mph with gusts to
                    13 mph.
Mixing height.......Lowering to around 600 ft AGL.
Transport winds.....Northwest around 6 mph.
Wind (20 ft)........Southwest 4-8 mph in the evening, becoming
                    light and variable 3-6 mph overnight.

.TUESDAY...

Sky/weather.........Sunny (20-30 percent).
Max temperature.....89-91.
Min humidity........22-25 percent.
Eye level winds.....Light winds becoming northwest 3-5 mph in the
                    afternoon.
Surrounding ridge...West to Northwest 6-10 mph with gusts to
                    14 mph.
Mixing height.......Rising to around 8600 ft AGL.
Transport winds.....Northwest around 5 mph.
Wind (20 ft)........Light winds becoming northwest 4-8 mph in the
                    afternoon.


Forecaster...MOLINA

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Requested by...ALEX ENTENMAN
Type of request...WILDFIRE
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