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<div>SMOKE MANAGEMENT FORECAST AND INSTRUCTIONS</div>
<div>SALEM FORESTRY WEATHER CENTER</div>
<div>OREGON DEPARTMENT OF FORESTRY</div>
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<div>ISSUED: Friday, May 1, 2009 2:40 PM Nick Yonker</div>
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<div>1. DISCUSSION AND FORECAST FOR SOUTH CENTRAL OREGON ZONES 624 AND 625</div>
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<div style="padding-left: 36pt; ">Upper level ridge is passing by to the east this afternoon as increasing clouds from a frontal system and trough moving up from the southwest pushes in this evening. Increasing rain arrives tonight and early Saturday morning.
Air mass will be somewhat stable during the night and early morning but cooler air moving in aloft, plus increasing southerly flow, will make for good mixing and dispersion on Saturday. </div>
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<div> OUTLOOK (SUNDAY - TUESDAY):</div>
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<div style="padding-left: 36pt; ">Upper trough continues to move in Sunday with more moisture increasing during the morning hours on Sunday. Rain will continue on and off Sunday before drying out later in the day. Another front will move in Monday bringing
more rain and wind. Expect continued cool, breezy, and showery conditions into Tuesday. Air mass will be mostly unstable through the period, and with brisk SW’erly flow, smoke dispersion will remain mostly excellent.</div>
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<div>2. DISPERSION</div>
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<div>SATURDAY</div>
<div style="padding-left: 36pt; ">Mixing height below 3000 ft early rising above 5000 ft by late morning. Mixing height lowers to 3000 - 4000 ft during the evening.</div>
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<div style="padding-left: 36pt; ">Transport wind SW to WSW at 13 - 25 mph.</div>
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<div style="padding-left: 36pt; ">Surface wind SSE to SSW at 10 - 16 mph.</div>
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<div>OUTLOOK:</div>
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<div>SUNDAY</div>
<div style="padding-left: 36pt; ">Mixing height 3200 - 4200 ft during the morning rising above 5000 ft during the afternoon. Transport wind SSW to SW at 18 - 30 mph during the morning becoming WSW to W at 18 - 32 mph during the afternoon. Surface wind SSE
to SSW at 10 - 16 mph during the morning becoming SW to W at 12 - 24 mph during the afternoon.</div>
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<div>MONDAY</div>
<div style="padding-left: 36pt; ">Mixing height 3200 - 4200 ft during the morning rising above 5000 ft during the afternoon. Transport wind SSE to SSW at 12 - 22 mph during the morning becoming S to SSW at 15 - 30 mph during the afternoon. Surface wind SSE
to SSW at 9 - 15 mph.</div>
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<div>TUESDAY</div>
<div style="padding-left: 36pt; ">Mixing height 3500 - 4500 ft during the morning rising above 5000 ft during the afternoon. Transport wind SW to W at 22 - 38 mph. Surface wind SW to W at 15 - 25 mph.</div>
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<div>3. BURNING INSTRUCTIONS FOR ZONES 624 AND 625 INCLUDING THE WALKER</div>
<div> RANGE PORTION OF ZONE 624</div>
<div>This instruction is valid for burning conducted on Saturday, May 2, 2009.</div>
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<div style="padding-left: 36pt; ">Avoid ignitions within 10 miles to the SSW through WSW of SSRAs. For units that will smolder significantly through the night avoid burning within at least 10 miles to the S through WSW in or near drainages leading to SSRAs.
No additional restrictions necessary. </div>
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<div>4. SPECIAL NOTE:</div>
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<div> The smoke management forecaster is available at (503)</div>
<div> 945-7401. The smoke management forecaster is available </div>
<div> to discuss specific burns. The duty forecaster phone </div>
<div> number is (503) 945-7401. Please call this number and </div>
<div> not individual's numbers to discuss daily burning. Please</div>
<div> avoid calling before 8 a.m. and between 2 to 3 p.m. </div>
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<div> This forecast is available on the Internet at: </div>
<div> <a href="http://oregon.gov/ODF/FIRE/fire.shtml/#Smoke_Management"><font color="#0000FF"><u>http://oregon.gov/ODF/FIRE/fire.shtml/#Smoke_Management</u></font></a> </div>
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<div> Please ensure your units have been planned and accomplished by checking: </div>
<div> <a href="http://oregon.gov/ODF/FIRE/SMP/dailysmoke.shtml"><font color="#0000FF"><u>http://oregon.gov/ODF/FIRE/SMP/dailysmoke.shtml</u></font></a> </div>
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