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Spot Forecast for COTTONWOOD SPRINGS...NEWICC
National Weather Service Spokane WA
528 PM PDT Wed Aug 20 2025

Forecast is based on forecast start time of 1700 PDT on August 20.
If conditions become unrepresentative...contact the National Weather
Service.

.DISCUSSION...
West winds are peaking currently with gusts up to 15 mph for
the next 1 to 2 hours. Winds will begin to decreasing through the
evening and shift to the north around 2200 hours then to the
north-northeast overnight. Winds will remain light through the
night with poor to fair relative humidity recoveries. Thursday
will be drier with minimum RHs in the mid-teens and light
northeast winds.

.REST OF TODAY...

Sky/weather.........Sunny.
CWR.................0 percent.
Chance of lightning.0 percent.
Max temperature.....Around 83.
Min humidity........20 percent.
Wind (20 ft)........West winds 4 to 8 mph. Wind gusts up to
                    15 mph for the next 1-2 hours.
Mixing height.......7000 ft AGL.
Transport winds.....West around 13 mph.

TIME (PDT)      5PM 6PM 7PM 8PM 9PM 10P 11P MID 1AM 2AM 3AM 4AM
Sky (%).........3   5   5   5   8   8   8   8   8   8   5   5
Weather cov.....
Weather type....
Tstm cov........
CWR.............0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0
Chc of ltng (%).0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0
Temp............82  81  78  75  67  65  63  62  60  58  55  54
RH..............24  24  26  29  35  38  40  40  43  46  49  50
20 FT wind dir..W   W   W   W   W   W   NW  N   N   N   N   N
20 FT wind spd..6   6   5   4   4   3   4   2   2   2   2   2
20 FT wind gust.13  10  8   6   6   6   5   5   5   6   5   5
Mix hgt (kft)...7.0 M   M   0.5 M   M   0.1 M   M   0.1 M   M
Transp wind dir.W   W   W   W   W   W   NW  NW  N   N   N   N
Transp wind spd.13  14  10  8   7   8   8   8   7   7   7   7

.TONIGHT...

Sky/weather.........Mostly clear.
CWR.................0 percent.
Chance of lightning.0 percent.
Min temperature.....Around 51.
Max humidity........54 percent.
Wind (20 ft)........West winds 3 to 6 mph early in the evening
                    shifting to the north around 2200 hours then
                    to the north-northeast after 2400 hours with
                    speeds 2 to 4 mph.
Mixing height.......6000 ft AGL in the early evening falling to
                    near the surface after 2000 hours.
Transport winds.....West 7 to 12 mph in the evening shifting to
                    the north 5 to 7 mph overnight.

.THURSDAY...

Sky/weather.........Mostly sunny.
CWR.................0 percent.
Chance of lightning.0 percent.
Max temperature.....Around 86.
Min humidity........15 percent.
Wind (20 ft)........Northeast winds 2 to 5 mph through the day.
Mixing height.......Morning inversion breaking between around 0900 hours
                    with mixing height around 2000 ft AGL. Mixing height
                    increasing to 7500 ft AGL by 1300 hours.
Transport winds.....North to northeast 4 to 7 mph.

$$
Forecaster...VT
Requested by...Hayley Elliott
Type of request...WILDFIRE
.TAG 2520344.0/OTX
.DELDT 08/20/25
.FormatterVersion 2.0.0
.EMAIL wanec@firenet.gov