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Fire Potential Main Title
Issued: Friday Nov 06, 2009
Predictive Service Areas Ytd Fri Sat Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu
Nov 05 Nov 06 Nov 07 Nov 08 Nov 09 Nov 10 Nov 11 Nov 12
NC01 - North Coast   1 1 1 1 1 1 1
NC02 - Mid Coast to Mendocino   1 1 1 1 1 1 1
NC03 - Bay Area   1 1 1 1 1 1 1
NC04 - Northwestern Mountains   1 1 1 1 1 1 1
NC05 - Sacramento Vly/Foothills   1 1 1 1 1 1 1
NC06 - Northeastern California   1 1 1 1 1 1 1
NC07 - Northern Sierra   1 1 1 1 1 1 1
NC08 - East Side   1 1 1 1 1 1 1
Weather Synopsis:  
Occasional light rain over much of the state this morning will be gradually tapering off. Gradual drying tonight into the early weekend.  On Saturday a cold front will move through and bring cooler air into the region....but the only precipitation would be light snow flurries over the far northern mountains. Winds today mainly S to SW at moderate to locally strong speeds on the ridges...but winds should be diminishing by late today.     - Basil
Click on this link to see CANSAC 3-hrly surface wind and precipitation forecasts:
http://www.cefa.dri.edu/COFF/cansac_output.php
Fire Potential Discussion:                    
Cool wet weather have pushed all PSAs into the "Moist" category.  There is a chance that dry and breezy conditions beginning on Day 6 or 7 or beyond could push some of the lower elevation PSAs west of the Cascade-Sierra crest back into the "Dry" category, but this pattern currently looks too brief to have much effect.
Resources:
Northern California Geographic Area Preparedness Level 1, MACS Mode 1.  
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NOTICE: Forecast for the following PSA's may be unavailable or unrepresentative of actual conditions due to missing observations from the stations listed below: 
 

MID COAST

Mendocino Pass

Soda Creek    

 

EAST SIDE

Barrel Springs

Juniper Springs

Stampede