Fire Weather Concerns for the Plains; Record Warmth Spreads

Dry and breezy conditions prevail across the High Plains where elevated to locally critical conditions continue through Thursday. Meanwhile, record warmth increases and spreads across the South, Southwest and into southern California into this last weekend of February. Meanwhile, a fast moving system moves across the Plains then off the mid-Atlantic by Thursday evening. Read More >

Bufkit Information

The BUFKIT program is a free computer program developed by the National Weather Service office in Buffalo, NY and the Warning Decision Training Branch in Norman, OK.

The program is an excellent tool for analysing model based atmosperic sounding data. If you have a need or interest in graphically viewing and analyzing this type of sounding data then this program is for you. Here is a screen snapshot of the 'main interface'. There is also a 'time-height' view if you want to view all of the sounding's hourly forecasts at once.

You can download the program from https://training.weather.gov/wdtd/tools/BUFKIT/ There is also additional information about the program at this web site.

Some data files for these soundings are available below but other sites are available in many locations on the internet.

State	NAM Model	NAM Nest	HRRR Model	RAP Model	GFS Model	SREF Model
Washington	Spokane Pullman Colville Republic Moses Lake Ephrata Wenatchee Omak Winthrop Plain Stampede Pass Yakima Pasco Walla Walla Seattle Ellensburg Mt Adams West	Spokane Pullman Colville Republic Moses Lake Ephrata Wenatchee Omak Winthrop Plain Stampede Pass Yakima Pasco Walla Walla Seattle Ellensburg Mt Adams West	Spokane Pullman Colville Republic Moses Lake Ephrata Wenatchee Omak Winthrop Plain Stampede Pass Yakima Pasco Walla Walla Ellensburg Mt Adams West	Spokane Pullman Colville Republic Moses Lake Ephrata Wenatchee Omak Winthrop Plain Stampede Pass Yakima Pasco Walla Walla Seattle Ellensburg Mt Adams West	Spokane Pullman Colville Moses Lake Ephrata Wenatchee Omak Winthrop Stampede Pass Yakima Pasco Walla Walla Seattle	Spokane Colville Wenatchee Omak Stampede Pass Yakima
Idaho	Coeur d 'Alene Bonners Ferry Kellogg Lewiston McCall Grangeville Boise	Coeur d 'Alene Bonners Ferry Kellogg Lewiston McCall Grangeville Boise	Coeur d 'Alene Bonners Ferry Kellogg Lewiston McCall Grangeville	Coeur d 'Alene Kellogg Lewiston McCall Grangeville Boise	Coeur d 'Alene Lewiston McCall Grangeville Boise	Coeur d 'Alene Lewiston
Montana	Missoula Libby Great Falls	Missoula Libby Great Falls	Missoula Libby	Missoula Libby Great Falls	Missoula Libby Great Falls
Oregon	Pendleton The Dalles Redmond Salem Portland	Pendleton The Dalles Redmond Salem Portland	Pendleton The Dalles Redmond Salem Portland	Pendleton The Dalles Redmond Salem Portland	Pendleton The Dalles Redmond Salem Portland

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