Fire started from unknown causes on June 14.
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Fire started from unknown causes on June 14.
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NWS Spokane, WA wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jun 14, 5:30 PM PST, 1 hour 5 minutes earlier.
Area Forecast Discussion National Weather Service Spokane WA 630 PM PDT Wed Jun 14 2023 .SYNOPSIS... Breezy westerly winds begin to decrease this evening. Higher pressure moves in Thursday into Friday, with seasonably warm temperatures. Another cold front arrives Friday night, with breezy westerly winds picking up again Saturday. Low pressure moving in for Sunday and early next week will bring the Inland Northwest below normal temperatures, and showery weather. && .DISCUSSION... Early evening update based on radar trends. As of 545 pm one band of showers was located over portions of the Spokane/Coeur d'Alene area with a secondary area over Colville and pushing south. Update to increase evening POP's over NE Washington to account for these two bands of showers. Our 00z balloon launch did show around 300 J/KG of CAPE which is likely contributing to the locally moderate rain showers occurring over the area. With the loss of daytime heating later this evening and the low pulling away, a trend should be towards drier weather after sunset. But it may not entirely dry out over the ID Panhandle as bands of wrap around moisture on the back side of the low clip the area. Also an update to sky cover has been sent into Thursday. Clouds are covering much of the region this evening except around the Wenatchee area, and over the Lewiston area. But expect the clouds to continue to push south this evening towards Lewiston, with additional bands of clouds wrapping around the low into Eastern WA/N Idaho into Thursday morning. Then Thursday afternoon lingering boundary layer moisture left over from this evening's showers...combined with daytime heating will lead to quite a bit of flat cumulus over Eastern Washington and north Idaho per BUFKIT soundings so sky cover was increased to account for this. JW && .AVIATION... 00Z TAFs: Winds will decrease through the evening hours. Convective showers across northeast Washington and northern Idaho will move toward the east southeast through the evening hours, and will be out of the region overnight. Patchy fog will be possible tonight across the Pend Oreille River valley, around Bonners Ferry, Sandpoint and down into the Rathdrum Prairie and along the Silver Valley where rain has saturated the boundary layer. The highest probability of cigs below 3k ft is 30-40% for the higher terrain of Shoshone county Thursday morning. && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... Spokane 49 77 50 81 58 78 / 40 0 0 0 10 10 Coeur d'Alene 48 75 50 79 57 76 / 40 10 10 0 10 20 Pullman 45 71 47 78 55 75 / 10 10 0 0 0 10 Lewiston 53 79 55 87 63 84 / 10 10 0 0 0 10 Colville 44 76 46 80 53 77 / 50 20 0 0 10 20 Sandpoint 48 72 49 77 55 75 / 50 20 20 0 20 30 Kellogg 50 68 51 75 57 72 / 60 20 20 0 10 30 Moses Lake 48 82 50 87 56 82 / 0 0 0 0 0 0 Wenatchee 53 81 56 85 60 77 / 0 0 0 0 0 0 Omak 51 83 54 85 56 82 / 0 0 0 0 0 10 && .OTX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... ID...None. WA...None. &&
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 wildfire. Local standard time, as filed.
Drumheller fire started on June 14 from unknown causes. It burned 929 acres of grassland.
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