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Fire Weather Planning Forecast for SW VA...SE WV and NW NC
National Weather Service Blacksburg VA
224 PM EDT Wed May 13 2026

.DISCUSSION...

A cold front looks to pass through the area tonight. Scattered
to numerous showers and thunderstorms are expected along and 
ahead of it with best coverage over the mountains of WV.

Outside of any thunderstorms, rainfall totals look to remain
meager. Behind the front, gusty northwest winds are anticipated,
and dry weather looks to funnel into the region on Friday 
with minimum RH values dropping into the 20-35% range areawide. 
By Saturday, southerly/southwesterly flow returns, and minimum
RH values look to rebound into the 30-40% range through the
weekend. 

Temperatures warm over the weekend into next week with mainly
isolated storms expected. Next best chance of wetting rain will be
Wednesday ahead of a front.


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VAZ016-140815-
Carroll-
Including the city of Galax
224 PM EDT Wed May 13 2026

                      Tonight      Thu          Thu Night    Fri          

Cloud Cover           Pcldy        Mclear       Mclear       Mclear       
Precip Type           Showers      None         None         None         
Chance Precip (%)     30           0            0            0            
Chance of Thunder (%) 0            0            0            0            
Min/Max Temp          45           60           43           72           
Max/Min RH %          88           47           78           33           
Wind 20ft/early(mph)  W  6 G17     NW 13 G25    NW  9 G21    NW  8 G22    
Wind 20ft/late(mph)   NW  7 G23    NW 12 G22    NW  6 G21    W  5         
Precip Amount         0.07         0.00         0.00         0.00         
Precip Duration       1                                                   
Precip Begin          6 PM                                                
Precip End            11 PM                                               
Mixing Hgt(ft-agl)                 5940                      5170         
Transport Wnd (mph)                NW 26                     W 13         
Vent Rate (mph-ft)                 154440                    67210        
Dispersion            Fair                      Fair                      
Max ADI Early         23 Fair      92 Good      100 Good     69 Good      
Max ADI Late          10 Poor      116 Very Good10 Poor      74 Good      
Max LVORI Early       4            4            3            4            
Max LVORI Late        4            1            4            1            

Remarks...None.

.FORECAST FOR DAYS 3 THROUGH 7...
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 50s. West winds
around 5 mph. 
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 70s. Minimum RH
44 percent. Southwest winds 5 to 10 mph. 
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 50s. Southwest
winds 5 to 10 mph. 
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs around 80. Minimum RH 45 percent.
Southwest winds around 5 mph. 
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 60s. South winds
around 5 mph. 
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 80s. Minimum RH 45 percent.
South winds 5 to 10 mph. 
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 60s. South winds
5 to 10 mph. 
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Highs in the lower 80s. Minimum RH 48 percent.
South winds 5 to 10 mph. 
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a slight chance of showers
and thunderstorms. Lows in the lower 60s. Southwest winds 5 to
10 mph. 
.WEDNESDAY...Partly sunny with showers likely and a chance of
thunderstorms. Highs in the upper 70s. Minimum RH 55 percent.
Southwest winds 5 to 10 mph.

.OUTLOOK 8 TO 14 DAYS...
Temperatures above normal.  Precipitation above normal.
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