January 19, 2022
The fog on the valley floor appears patchy. As of 7:00am, Visalia was reporting a visibility of ½ mile, Bakersfield, Porterville, Fresno, and Madera are each reporting 3 miles. Beware, however, infrared satellite imagery shows a finger of fog roughly parallel to Highway 99 from roughly Exeter north. A large ridge of upper level high pressure is centered off the coast of the Pacific Northwest and northern California with a big ridge extending into the northwest territories of Canada. California is on the eastern fringe of the high, putting us in a north/northwest flow aloft. Periods of high clouds will rotate through the high from time to time, but overall skies will remain mostly clear, allowing temperatures to move up into the low to mid 60s each day with the usual filtered sunlight of the valley.
Models continue to portray a blocking ridge pattern through the end of the month. The GFS model tries to form a low somewhere near northern California beginning around the 29th. For now, though, there’s no strong signature for precipitation. What a difference a month makes with the abundant precipitation of December completely drying up for January.
Forecast: Outside of areas of night and morning fog and low clouds and occasional high clouds, it will be mostly clear and hazy through next Wednesday.
Short Term:
Madera 63/35/63/36/62 | Reedley 62/35/62/36/61 | Dinuba 61/34/62/35/61 |
Porterville 64/36/64/36/63 | Lindsay 63/34/62/34/62 | Delano 64/38/64/39/62 |
Bakersfield 65/42/65/42/63 | Taft 60/45/62/45/62 | Arvin 65/38/67/38/64 |
Lamont 64/37/62/38/62 | Pixley 64/35/63/35/63 | Tulare 63/34/63/35/61 |
Woodlake 63/34/62/35/61 | Hanford 62/39/63/39/61 | Orosi 62/34/62/35/62 |
Seven Forecast:
Saturday
Patchy fog/partly cloudy 34/62 |
Sunday
Patchy fog/partly cloudy 34/63 |
Monday
Patchy fog/partly cloudy 33/62 |
Tuesday
Patchy fog/partly cloudy 34/63 |
Wednesday
Patchy fog/partly cloudy 35/64 |
Two Week Outlook: January 26 through February 1: This model has flip flopped back to showing a blocking ridge pattern with high pressure dominating the western 1/3 of the US. The chance of precipitation will remain low with above average temperatures.
January: This model doesn’t really indicate a trend that would favor above or below precipitation. The active storm track in the Pacific Northwest will continue. Both temperatures and precipitation should be close to seasonal averages.
January, February, March: The trend of below average temperatures of late continues on the 90 day forecast which indicates temperatures will be slightly below average. Below average precipitation is anticipated over the Desert Southwest and the southern half of California with near average precipitation from Fresno County north.
Wind Discussion: Winds will be generally at or less than 6 MPH with periods of near calm conditions through Saturday.
Rain: Expect dry weather for the next 7 to possibly 10 days.
Frost: Expect temperatures to be above freezing for the next 7 to 10 days.
Actual Humidity Range Yesterday: Delano, 95%/62% Porterville, 100%/66%. Dew points: Mid to upper 40s. Kern: Mid to upper 40s.
Percentage of Sunshine Today/Tomorrow: Visalia: Today: 80%, tomorrow 80%. Bakersfield: Today: 80%/. Tomorrow, 80%.
ET Rates Over the Past Seven Days: Stratford .26, Parlier .30, Arvin .35, Orange Cove .33, Porterville .32, Delano .30. Courtesy University of California *=estimate, NA=not available.
Seven Day Soil Temperatures: Stratford, 53, Parlier 51, Arvin, .52, Orange Cove 50, Porterville 50, Delano 46. *=data missing.
Average Temperatures: 56/38. Record Temperatures: 73/24
Heating Degree Days This Season. 1262 -102 Varies widely from location to location. courtesy of the NWS
courtesy of the NWS
Precipitation: Seasonal total for Fresno, 5.21 or +.67. Monthly .T -1.32
Precipitation for Bakersfield, Season, 3.56 or +95. Month to date .01 -.71
Average Temperature this month: 47.4, +1.4 Taken NWS Hanford.
Water year season is from October 1st through September 30.
Chilling Hours November 1st through February 28: Orange Cove, 549, Parlier, 549, Arvin, 552, Belridge, 617, Shafter, 588, Stratford, 617, Delano, 654, Porterville, 665 courtesy UC Davis
Sunrise. 7:09, Sunset, 5:12, hours of daylight, 10:02
Yesterday’s Weather:
MCE : Merced AP 153 : 64 / 40 / 0.00 /
MAE : Madera AP 253 : 64 / 39 / 0.00 /
FAT : Fresno AP 333 : 62 / 44 / 0.00 /
HJO : Hanford AP 242 : 65 / 40 / T /
NLC : Lemoore NAS 234 : 66 / 40 / 0.03 /
BFL : Bakersfield AP 496 : 64 / 45 / 0.00 /
VIS : Visalia AP 292 : 63 / 42 / 0.00 /
PTV : Porterville AP 442 : 64 / 41 / 0.00 /
IYK : Inyokern AP 2455 : 66 / 38 / 0.00 /
MHV : Mojave AP 2785 : 63 / 48 / 0.00 /
CLIMATE STATION TOTAL 2022 PON 2021 PON NORMAL NORMAL
STOCKTON 0.00 8.21 135 2.09 34 6.08 13.45
MODESTO 0.00 8.15 152 1.54 29 5.37 12.27
MERCED 0.00 5.85 117 2.28 46 4.99 11.80
MADERA 0.00 1.52 34 0.77 17 4.41 10.79
FRESNO 0.00 5.21 115 1.42 31 4.54 10.99
HANFORD T 4.61 134 0.67 19 3.45 8.13
BAKERSFIELD 0.00 3.56 136 0.74 28 2.61 6.36
BISHOP 0.00 4.50 217 0.21 10 2.07 4.84
SALINAS 0.00 6.11 111 0.96 17 5.50 12.58
PASO ROBLES 0.00 7.34 145 0.99 20 5.05 12.15
SANTA MARIA 0.00 6.26 117 1.77 33 5.36 13.32
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