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Spot Forecast for Corral Creek IAP
National Weather Service Missoula MT
603 PM MDT Sat Aug 23 2025

Forecast is based on forecast start time of 1800 MDT on August 23.
If conditions become unrepresentative...contact the National Weather
Service.

.DISCUSSION... Hot and dry with east winds continuing. Overnight
valley inversion / thermal belts likely to continue, warming and
drying with height to about 5000 ft MSL. Patchy smoke from
regional wildfire activity and mid-high level clouds passing
through at times. Winds may become increasingly influenced by
terrain with mixing winds decreasing through Monday. Hot and dry
continuing into the early part of the week followed by increasing
chances for showers and thunderstorms by the middle of next week.

.SUNDAY...

* Sky/Weather.........Partly cloudy. Smoke/haze.
* CWR (> 0.10 Inch)...0 percent.
* Chance Lightning....0 percent.
* Max Temperature.....82-87.
* Min Humidity........16-21 percent.
* Wind (20 ft)........Southeast 2-6 mph with gusts up to 15 mph in
  the morning shifting to the north-northeast 4-7 mph with gusts
  up to 20 mph in the afternoon.
* Mixing Height.......Less than 500 ft agl in the morning
  increasing to 6000 ft agl in the afternoon.
* Mixing Winds........Northeast 5 mph.
* Precip Amount.......0.00 inches.

.SUNDAY NIGHT...

* Sky/Weather.........Mostly clear.
* CWR (> 0.10 Inch)...0 percent.
* Chance Lightning....0 percent.
* Min Temperature.....54-59.
* Max Humidity........55-60 percent.
* Wind (20 ft)........North-northeast 4-7 mph with gusts up to 17
  mph in the evening becoming south-southeast 3-7 mph with gusts
  up to 20 mph overnight and into the morning.
* Mixing Height.......Decreasing to less than 500 ft agl
  overnight.
* Mixing Winds........Southeast 10 mph.
* Precip Amount.......0.00 inches.

.MONDAY...

* Sky/Weather.........Partly cloudy.
* CWR (> 0.10 Inch)...0 percent.
* Chance Lightning....0 percent.
* Max Temperature.....83-88.
* Min Humidity........13-18 percent.
* Wind (20 ft)........South-southeast 3-7 mph with gusts up to 17
  mph in the morning becoming east 2-5 mph with gusts up to 15 mph
  in the afternoon.
* Mixing Height.......Increasing to 8000 ft agl in the afternoon.
* Mixing Winds........Southeast 5 mph.
* Precip Amount.......0.00 inches.

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Forecaster...Parker/Booth
Requested by...Greg Anderson
Type of request...WILDFIRE
.TAG 2520425.1/MSO
.DELDT 08/23/25
.FormatterVersion 2.0.0
.EMAIL gregory.j.anderson@usda.gov,andrew.bidwell@usda.gov