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Spot Forecast for Lightning Creek Wildfire...USFS
National Weather Service Spokane WA
627 AM PDT Mon Aug 4 2025

Forecast is based on forecast start time of 0700 PDT on August 04.
If conditions become unrepresentative...contact the National Weather
Service.

.DISCUSSION...
Today a chance for showers and thunderstorms develops for this
afternoon and evening. Overall these are expected to be isolated,
if any occur.  Main concerns with thunderstorms will be localized
gusty outflow winds and lightning.  Winds will be largely terrain
driven. Tuesday sees calmer weather return, except for some mild
breezes in the afternoon. Shower chances returns later Wednesday,
becoming likely on Thursday with a chance for thunderstorms.
Some of the thunderstorms Thursday could contain be locally
strong and contain heavier rains.


.TODAY...

Sky/weather.........Partly cloudy. Areas of smoke. Slight chance of
                    showers and thunderstorms.
CWR.................10 percent.
Chance of lightning.20 percent.
Max temperature.....Around 77.
Min humidity........44 percent.
Wind (20 ft)........Light winds becoming west 5 to 8 mph with
                    gusts to 12 mph in the afternoon. Gusty and
                    erratic winds expected near thunderstorms.
Mixing height.......6000 ft AGL in the afternoon.
Transport winds.....Southwest 6 to 9 mph.

.TONIGHT...

Sky/weather.........Mostly cloudy. Slight chance of showers and
                    thunderstorms in the evening. Areas of smoke
                    through the night.
CWR.................10 percent.
Chance of lightning.20 percent.
Min temperature.....Around 53.
Max humidity........65 percent.
Wind (20 ft)........Southwest winds 5 to 8 mph in the evening
                    becoming light. Gusty and erratic winds
                    expected near thunderstorms in the evening.
Mixing height.......4000 ft AGL falling to 500 ft AGL.
Transport winds.....Southwest 9 to 10 mph.

.TUESDAY...

Sky/weather.........Mostly sunny. Areas of smoke in the morning.
CWR.................0 percent.
Chance of lightning.0 percent.
Max temperature.....Around 74.
Min humidity........40 percent.
Wind (20 ft)........Light winds becoming southwest around 5 to
                    8 mph with gusts to 17 mph in the afternoon.
Mixing height.......7000 ft AGL in the afternoon.
Transport winds.....Southwest 11 to 15 mph.

.FORECAST DAYS 3 THROUGH 5...
.WEDNESDAY...
Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 50s. Highs in the lower 70s. Light
winds in the morning...becoming west 3 to 6 mph in the afternoon.
.THURSDAY...
Mostly cloudy with showers likely and chance of thunderstorms.
Lows in the mid 50s. Highs in the mid 60s. Light winds in
the morning...becoming southwest 5 to 8 mph with gusts to 15 mph.
.FRIDAY...
Mostly cloudy. Showers likely and slight chance of thunderstorms.
Lows in the upper 40s. Highs in the upper 60s. Southwest winds
3 to 6 mph.

$$
Forecaster...MSC
Requested by...Nick Mersinger
Type of request...WILDFIRE
.TAG 2519073.2/OTX
.DELDT 08/04/25
.FormatterVersion 2.0.0
.EMAIL Nicholas.mersinger@usda.gov