FNUS74 KLUB 181034 FWSLUB Fire Weather Planning Forecast for Blue Diamond...TX Forest Service National Weather Service Lubbock TX 534 AM CDT Mon May 18 2026 Forecast is based on forecast start time of 0600 CDT on May 18. If conditions become unrepresentative...contact the National Weather Service. If you have questions or concerns with this forecast, please contact our office at (806) 745-4926. ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 11 AM THIS MORNING TO 10 PM CDT THIS EVENING... ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM NOON TODAY TO 8 PM CDT THIS EVENING... .DISCUSSION... RH recovery this morning has been excellent, currently around 80 percent. RH will drop quickly today as a dryline pushes eastward, dropping to around 7 percent by the afternoon. Winds will also increase late morning into the afternoon becoming sustained near 30 mph with gusts to 50 mph. This will lead to extremely critical fire spread conditions with RTFIs reaching 8. South winds this morning will become southwest by late morning, remaining southwest through the rest of the day. Winds will diminish slightly after sunset, dropping to near 15 mph with gusts to 30 mph and to around 10 mph after midnight. A wind shift to the north is expected between 4-6 AM Tuesday as a cold front pushes through the region. An increase in wind speed to near 20 mph will follow the cold front. .TODAY... Sky/weather.........Sunny (0-10 percent). Patchy blowing dust in the afternoon. CWR.................0 percent. Max temperature.....Around 93. Min humidity........6 percent. Wind (20 ft)........Breezy. Southwest winds 13 to 22 mph with gusts to around 37 mph increasing to 23 to 29 mph with gusts to around 47 mph in the afternoon. TIME (CDT) 6 AM 8 AM 10 AM NOON 2 PM 4 PM Sky (%).........5 5 1 1 3 5 Weather cov..... PATCHY PATCHY Weather type....NONE NONE NONE NONE BLDUST BLDUST Tstm cov........ CWR.............0 0 0 0 0 0 Temp............66 69 79 86 90 91 RH..............81 70 24 10 7 7 20 ft wind......S 15 SW 14 SW 20 SW 23 SW 25 SW 29 20 ft wind gust.21 21 31 38 41 47 .TONIGHT... Sky/weather.........Mostly clear (5-15 percent). Patchy blowing dust early in the evening. CWR.................0 percent. Min temperature.....Around 48. Max humidity........74 percent. Wind (20 ft)........Breezy. Southwest winds 23 to 29 mph with gusts to around 47 mph decreasing to 10 to 18 mph in the late evening and overnight, then shifting to the north 14 to 17 mph after 3 am. TIME (CDT) 6PM 7PM 8PM 9PM 10P 11P MID 1AM 2AM 3AM 4AM 5AM Sky (%).........3 3 3 8 7 3 3 5 4 6 12 20 Weather cov.....PTY Weather type....BDT Tstm cov........ CWR.............0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Temp............91 90 88 82 79 76 73 70 66 61 57 53 RH..............7 7 9 11 13 14 16 18 25 36 47 57 20 FT wind dir..SW SW SW SW SW SW SW SW W N N N 20 FT wind spd..29 26 23 18 15 13 12 10 10 14 17 17 20 FT wind gust.47 44 38 29 22 20 17 16 16 18 23 24 .TUESDAY... Sky/weather.........Mostly sunny (25-35 percent). CWR.................0 percent. Max temperature.....Around 79. Min humidity........24 percent. Wind (20 ft)........Northeast winds 12 to 20 mph shifting to the east around 12 mph late in the afternoon. TIME (CDT) 6AM 7AM 8AM 9AM 10A 11A 12P 1PM 2PM 3PM 4PM 5PM Sky (%).........15 50 34 22 16 6 8 14 19 19 23 23 Weather cov..... Weather type.... Tstm cov........ CWR.............0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Temp............50 48 48 51 56 60 64 67 71 74 76 77 RH..............66 74 74 66 53 46 38 34 29 27 25 24 20 FT wind dir..N N N N N NE NE NE NE NE E E 20 FT wind spd..17 18 20 20 20 18 17 16 14 13 12 12 20 FT wind gust.24 26 28 28 28 26 24 22 20 18 18 18 $$ Forecaster...ALDRICH Requested by...Dwayne Teel Type of request...WILDFIRE .TAG 2613905.0/LUB .DELDT 05/18/26 .FormatterVersion 2.0.0 .EMAIL csdispatch@gmail.com