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Spot Forecast for Cedar City Piles Rx...USFS
National Weather Service Salt Lake City UT
550 AM MST Thu Jan 22 2026

Forecast is based on ignition time of 1000 MST on January 22.
If conditions become unrepresentative...contact the National Weather
Service.

.DISCUSSION...Dry and stable conditions will remain in place over the burn
area today as one more day of high pressure is forecast before
low pressure arrives on Friday. Temperature and relative humidity
will see minimal change as compared to the day prior with light,
terrain driven winds prevailing. By Friday morning, cooler
temperatures and lower pressure will begin moving into the region
and help to support sufficient mixing at the very least. An area of
higher elevation snowfall (above 6,500ft elevations) is expected to
develop over central/ southern Utah on Friday morning and will
progress southward over the burn site by Friday afternoon, but
will become more showery in nature as it does so. Total snow
accumulations are expected to be around an inch or less during the
day on Friday. Light snowfall will continue through Saturday,
with total accumulations reaching upwards of 2 inches (25 percent
chance). That said, there is still a 20-30% chance of no snow
accumulation.

.TODAY...

Sky/weather.........Mostly cloudy (70-80 percent cloud cover).
CWR.................0 percent.
Chance of pcpn......0 percent.
Chance of lightning.0 percent.
Max temperature.....45-47.
Min humidity........7-12 percent.
Wind (20 ft)........Upslope 3-6 mph. West winds around 5-10 mph on ridges.
Mixing height.......2700 ft AGL.
   Climatology......20-30th Percentile.
Transport winds.....West around 14 mph.
Clearing index......290.

.TONIGHT...

Sky/weather.........Mostly cloudy (75-85 percent cloud cover).
CWR.................0 percent.
Chance of pcpn......10 percent.
Chance of lightning.0 percent.
Min temperature.....24-26.
Max humidity........54-56 percent.
Wind (20 ft)........Downslope 4-7 mph. West to southwest winds 8-12 mph on ridges.
Transport winds.....West 10 to 13 mph.

.FRIDAY...

Sky/weather.........Partly cloudy (50-60 percent cloud cover) then
                    becoming mostly cloudy (65-75 percent cloud
                    cover). Slight chance of snow early in the
                    morning. Chance of snow late in the morning through
the evening. Total daytime snow around 1 inch or less.
CWR.................20 percent.
Chance of pcpn......50 percent.
Chance of lightning.0 percent.
Max temperature.....36-38.
Min humidity........46-48 percent.
Wind (20 ft)........West to west-southwest winds 5-10 mph with gusts up to 15-20 mph.
Mixing height.......2700 ft AGL.
   Climatology......20-30th Percentile.
Transport winds.....West 15 to 20 mph.
Clearing index......670.

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Forecaster...Webber
Requested by...Cody Turner
Type of request...PRESCRIBED
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.DELDT 01/22/26
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.EMAIL cody.turner@usda.gov