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Spot Forecast for Taylor Hollow...USFS
National Weather Service Blacksburg VA
517 AM EDT Thu Jul 16 2026

Forecast is based on forecast start time of 0600 EDT on July 16.
If conditions become unrepresentative, contact the National Weather
Service.

.DISCUSSION...

Expect mostly sunny skies today under dry high pressure, however
expect haze. By tomorrow, there will be increasing clouds along
with chances of showers and thunderstorms in the afternoon and
evening near the fire. Temperatures today and tomorrow will be in
the upper 80s to lower 90s. With dry air in place, minimum RH
values during the afternoon hours look to drop to around 40 to 50
percent today and tomorrow. Winds will continue to be very light
and out of the west northwest at around 5 mph or less today, but
look to transition to the northeast Friday and remain light. The
mixing wind will be more variable and slightly stronger.


.TODAY...

Sky/weather.........Mostly sunny (25-35 percent). Areas of fog
                    early in the morning. Haze in the late morning
                    and afternoon.
CWR (0.01 in).......0 percent.
Max temperature.....Around 90.
Min humidity........44 percent.
Wind (20 ft)........Light winds.
Mixing height.......5700 ft AGL.
Mixing winds........Northwest around 3 mph shifting to the
                    northeast 3 to 5 mph late in the morning, then
                    shifting to the west 1 to 2 mph early in the
                    afternoon shifting to the southwest 2 to 3 mph
                    late in the afternoon.
Smoke dispersal.....Poor (1200 knot-ft) early in the morning
                    increasing to fair (16400 knot-ft) in the
                    afternoon.
LVORI...............3.
ADI.................1 to 23.

TIME (EDT)      6AM 7AM 8AM 9AM 10A 11A 12P 1PM 2PM 3PM 4PM 5PM
Sky (%).........20  37  25  28  23  33  29  29  38  29  19  28
Weather cov.....ARS ARS     DEF DEF DEF DEF DEF DEF DEF DEF DEF
Weather type....FOG FOG     HAZ HAZ HAZ HAZ HAZ HAZ HAZ HAZ HAZ
Tstm cov........
CWR.............0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0
Temp............72  72  75  79  83  85  86  87  88  89  90  89
RH..............75  75  68  64  58  55  53  51  49  46  44  44
20 FT wind dir..NE  NE  N   N   N   NW  W   W   SW  SW  SW  SW
20 FT wind spd..2   2   2   1   1   1   1   2   2   2   3   3
20 FT wind gust.5   6   6   5   5   4   4   5   5   6   6   6
Mix hgt (kft)...0.5 0.4 0.5 1.0 2.1 3.4 4.2 4.8 5.2 5.4 5.7 5.5
Mixng wind dir..NW  NW  NW  N   NE  NE  NE  NW  W   W   W   SW
Mixng wind spd..3   3   3   3   5   5   3   2   1   1   2   3
LVORI...........4   4   3   3   2   2   2   2   2   2   2   2
ADI.............1   3   3   5   13  20  19  13  7   9   16  23
VRate mph-ft/1K.1   1   2   4   10  16  15  10  6   8   13  19

.TONIGHT...

Sky/weather.........Mostly clear (20-30 percent).
CWR (0.01 in).......0 percent.
Min temperature.....Around 73.
Max humidity........73 percent.
Wind (20 ft)........Light winds becoming northeast around 5 mph
                    early in the morning.
Mixing height.......400 ft AGL.
Mixing winds........West 3 to 7 mph shifting to the northeast
                    around 7 mph early in the morning.
Smoke dispersal.....Fair (15000 knot-ft) early in the evening
                    decreasing to poor (1400 knot-ft) late in the
                    night.
LVORI...............3.
ADI.................2 to 22.

TIME (EDT)      6 PM   8 PM   10 PM  MIDNGT 2 AM   4 AM
Sky (%).........35     32     36     25     22     22
Weather cov.....
Weather type....NONE   NONE   NONE   NONE   NONE   NONE
Tstm cov........
CWR.............0      0      0      0      0      0
Temp............86     82     79     78     76     74
RH..............49     59     64     68     72     73
20 ft wind......SW 2   SW 2   W 1    NE 1   NE 2   NE 4
20 ft wind gust.6      6      5      5      6      10
Mix hgt (ft)....3500   400    500    500    500    700
Mixing wind......W 5    W 7    W 5    NW 3   N 6    N 6
LVORI...........2      3      3      3      3      3
ADI.............22     3      2      2      3      3
VRate mph-ft/1K.17     3      2      2      3      4

.FRIDAY...

Sky/weather.........Mostly sunny (30-40 percent). Haze in the late
                    morning and afternoon.
CWR (0.01 in).......10 percent.
Max temperature.....Around 86.
Min humidity........47 percent.
Wind (20 ft)........Northeast winds around 5 mph early in the
                    morning becoming light.
Mixing height.......5100 ft AGL.
Mixing winds........Northeast 7 to 13 mph shifting to the east 2 to
                    3 mph late in the morning, then shifting to the
                    southwest 2 to 6 mph in the afternoon.
Smoke dispersal.....Poor (3600 knot-ft) early in the morning
                    increasing to fair (22900 knot-ft) in the
                    afternoon.
LVORI...............2.
ADI.................4 to 33.

TIME (EDT)      6 AM   8 AM   10 AM  NOON   2 PM   4 PM
Sky (%).........34     37     33     39     34     35
Weather cov.....              DEFNTE DEFNTE DEFNTE DEFNTE
Weather type....NONE   NONE   HAZE   HAZE   HAZE   HAZE
Tstm cov........
CWR.............0      0      0      0      0      0
Temp............73     76     80     83     85     86
RH..............71     63     54     51     48     48
20 ft wind......NE 5   NE 4   NE 2   E 2    S 2    S 3
20 ft wind gust.11     10     6      5      6      6
Mix hgt (ft)....400    700    2100   4100   5000   5100
Mixing wind......NE 9   NE 13  E 7    E 2    SW 3   SW 6
LVORI...........3      2      2      2      2      1
ADI.............4      12     18     13     22     33
VRate mph-ft/1K.4      9      14     11     17     26

$$

Forecaster...Hanes
Requested by...Lindsey Curtin
Type of request...WILDFIRE
.TAG 2617252.7/RNK
.DELDT 07/16/26
.FormatterVersion 2.0.0
.EMAIL brent.foltz@usda.gov,james.collett@usda.gov,jacob.johnson2@usda.gov,lindsey.curtin@usda.gov,martin.angelo@usda.gov