A wildfire of about 200 acres began 1 mile southeast of Malad City on July 7th and burned grass, brush and juniper with no threat to structure east of interstate 15.
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A wildfire of about 200 acres began 1 mile southeast of Malad City on July 7th and burned grass, brush and juniper with no threat to structure east of interstate 15.
The local office's own words before the first event, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Pocatello, ID wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jul 7, 12:47 PM MST, 2 hours 13 minutes earlier.
Area Forecast Discussion National Weather Service Pocatello ID 147 PM MDT Sat Jul 7 2018 .DISCUSSION...Our weather story continues to be hot and dry as Idaho lies on the northwest side of a ridge of high pressure. Diurnal variances to wind directions are anticipated. A weak disturbance is looking to break up the ridge late Monday and may cool off select areas of our state in the form of rain showers going into Tuesday. These showers shouldn't be relied upon though, forecast models are not agreeing with each other as to whether they will even happen, or at what time. Even if any do develop, not much will fall/accumulate. Little to no temperature relief is seen going through the week with mid or upper 90 degrees continuing across our area. NP/JAM && .AVIATION...A little afternoon breeze with gusts to 20KT in the Snake River plain, otherwise fairly light and thermally-driven wind. Except for a mid-level CIG that develops tonight everywhere except KSUN which is out of the subtropical moisture flow coming from Utah. Will clear up during the late morning and early afternoon. May need a slight chance of TS for Mon afternoon in those locations. VSBY should be unlimited all locations. Messick && .FIRE WEATHER...Moist unstable air from the subtropics has started entering the gem state, but only very weakly, with the Driggs area receiving a trace of precipitation, and some showers moved through the Caribou NF this morning. A stronger surge of this moisture should come Mon night, possibly Mon afternoon, and will trigger showers and, if timing is right, thunderstorms. The better and more sure thunderstorm threat is Tuesday afternoon/evening. It is possible that these storms could transition from dry to wet; in any case, it looks very likely that zones with the critical fuel conditions will be subject to Red Flag conditions due to lightning by Tuesday. This flow of moisture is always tricky, and it reduces the confidence, but this will certainly have to be monitored at least for now. The focus for Tue convection is the Snake River plain and any land south or east of it, although a few storms may be generated in the northern half of the Sawtooth NF and the southeastern portions of the Salmon-Challis NF. For the wind and humidity, the wind is not strong where the humidity is low, with windspeeds expected to be strongest today compared to the next two days, but lower than yesterday (Fri). With the arrival of the subtropical air mass on Mon night, it could interact with a weak trough and also have breezy to windy conditions at night and in the morning for Mon night/Tue. Strong westerly flow will bring in more stable and much drier air, and the thunderstorm threat evaporates by Wed afternoon. Messick && .AIR STAGNATION...There is an outside chance that wildfire smoke from the Martin Fire in North Central Nevada may track into Central and Southern Idaho this evening and overnight and settle under the inversion. This afternoon, the plume was just passing across the Nevada/Idaho border according to satellite imagery. We will have to keep our eye on area smoke plumes over Utah as well especially going into next week; certain long term forecast models are suggesting a shift in increasing smoke particulates into southern Idaho early next week. NP && .PIH WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... None. &&
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 wildfire. Local standard time, as filed.
A wildfire of about 200 acres began 1 mile southeast of Malad City on July 7th and burned grass, brush and juniper with no threat to structure east of interstate 15.
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