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Spot Forecast for Miller Gulch
National Weather Service Missoula MT
627 PM MDT Wed Jul 30 2025

Forecast is based on forecast start time of 1800 MDT on July 30. 
If conditions become unrepresentative...contact the National Weather
Service.

.DISCUSSION...There are two main impacts to the fire area tonight.
The first is east winds which will be increase between 1900 and
2100 and peak with gusts 20-25 mph before decreasing to variable
at 4-7 mph on the ridges through the rest of the night. The second
is an area of thunderstorms moving north through the Bitterroot
valley and Sapphire Mountains this evening. The east winds will
undercut those storms and cause them to die out, but they may
still be capable of producing lightning as the near the fire area
around 2000 to 2100.

Another round of thunderstorms is expected tomorrow. These storms
will be more widespread and have a better chance of causing heavy
rain. A direct hit from the core of a thunderstorm tomorrow will
likely bring around a quarter of an inch of rain. Anything other
than a direct hit will likely bring a few hundredths. 

.TONIGHT...

* Sky/Weather.........Partly cloudy. Chance of showers and 
  thunderstorms in the evening. 
* CWR (> 0.10 Inch)...10 percent. 
* Chance Lightning....25 percent. 
* Min Temperature.....53-58. 
* Max Humidity........71-76 percent. 
* Wind (20 ft)........Northeast 6-7 mph in the evening increasing
  to east 5-10 mph gusting 20-25 mph by 2000. Winds decrease by 
  midnight and are variable 4-7 mph through the morning.
* Mixing Height.......6500 ft agl decreasing to 1000 ft agl. 
* Mixing Winds........Southeast 10 mph. 
* Precip Amount.......0.00-0.05 inches. 

.THURSDAY...

* Sky/Weather.........Partly cloudy. Chance of showers and 
  thunderstorms in the afternoon. 
* CWR (> 0.10 Inch)...10 percent. 
* Chance Lightning....40 percent. 
* Max Temperature.....81-86. 
* Min Humidity........28-33 percent. 
* Wind (20 ft)........Variable 2-4 mph becoming northeast 5-6 mph 
  in the afternoon. 
* Mixing Height.......3500 ft agl increasing to 7500 ft agl. 
* Mixing Winds........East 5 mph. 
* Precip Amount.......0.00-0.10 inches. 

.THURSDAY NIGHT...

* Sky/Weather.........Mostly cloudy. Chance of showers and 
  thunderstorms in the evening. 
* CWR (> 0.10 Inch)...40 percent. 
* Chance Lightning....40 percent. 
* Min Temperature.....51-56. 
* Max Humidity........76-81 percent. 
* Wind (20 ft)........Southeast 5-6 mph in the evening becoming 
  variable 2-4 mph. 
* Mixing Height.......1000 ft agl. 
* Mixing Winds........South 10 mph. 
* Precip Amount.......0.02-0.10 inches, unless hit directly by a
  storm, then closer to 0.25 inches.
 
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Forecaster...Leach 
Requested by...Liz Figgins 
Type of request...WILDFIRE 
.TAG 2518791.2/MSO 
.DELDT 07/30/25 
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.EMAIL mtmdc@firenet.gov