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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, October 9, 2009 2:40 PM Nick Yonker</div>
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<div>****Due to the increase in fall burning, smoke management will begin staffing the office on weekends starting this Sunday. Seven-day-a-week operations will continue until burning slows down later this fall. Office hours will be from 6:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Our phone number for burning related questions is: 503-945-7401.****</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; ">Dry cold front is moving down from the north today and will bring cooler temperatures to the region this weekend. Air mass will destabilize some as the cooler air moves in aloft. Expect continued clear skies. Wind flow will
remain mostly northerly and smoke dispersion fair.</div>
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<div> OUTLOOK (SUNDAY - TUESDAY):</div>
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<div style="padding-left: 36pt; ">Northerly flow aloft weakens on Sunday as a weak ridge approaches ahead of an impressive eastern Pacific trough. The ridge will move through Monday with the upper level trough approaching on Tuesday. Front will move in early
Tuesday bringing rain to the region. Wind flow will turn from northerly on Sunday to southerly on Monday and Tuesday. Smoke dispersion will gradually improve through the period.</div>
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<div>2. DISPERSION</div>
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<div>SATURDAY</div>
<div style="padding-left: 36pt; ">Mixing height below 1000 ft early rising to 2000 - 3000 ft by late morning. Afternoon mixing height rises to 4000 - 5000 ft then lowers below 1000 ft during the evening.</div>
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<div style="padding-left: 36pt; ">Transport wind light and variable and controlled by local terrain during the morning. Transport wind increases to NW to NNW at 8 - 12 mph during the afternoon and evening.</div>
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<div style="padding-left: 36pt; ">Surface wind light and variable and controlled by local terrain during the morning. Surface wind increases to WNW to NNW at 6 - 10 mph during the afternoon then becomes light and variable during the evening.</div>
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<div>OUTLOOK:</div>
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<div>SUNDAY</div>
<div style="padding-left: 36pt; ">Mixing height below 1000 ft early rising to 2500 - 3500 ft by late morning rising to 4000 - 5000 ft during the afternoon. Transport wind NNW to NNE at 4 - 8 mph. Surface wind light and variable during the morning becoming
NNW to NE at 5 - 9 mph during the afternoon.</div>
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<div>MONDAY</div>
<div style="padding-left: 36pt; ">Mixing height below 1000 ft early rising to 2500 - 3500 ft by late morning rising to 3500 - 4500 ft during the afternoon. Transport wind SSE to SSW at 9 - 15 mph. Surface wind SE to SSW at 8 - 12 mph.</div>
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<div>TUESDAY</div>
<div style="padding-left: 36pt; ">Mixing height below 1000 ft early rising to 2000 - 3000 ft by late morning rising to 3500 - 4500 ft during the afternoon. Transport wind SSE to SSW at 18 - 32 mph during the morning becoming SSE to SSW at 15 - 25 mph during
the afternoon. Surface wind SE to S at 10 - 20 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, October 10, 2009.</div>
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<div style="padding-left: 36pt; ">Avoid ignitions within 15 miles to the WNW through NNE of SSRAs. For units that will smolder significantly through the night avoid burning within at least 30 miles to the WNW through NNE in or near drainages leading to SSRAs.
Recommend against burning units that will smolder significantly overnight. Complete ignitions by 4 p.m. </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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