January 26, 2024
Summary: Variable amounts of high clouds are overrunning a ridge of high pressure currently over California. This slowed the radiational cooling process enough last night to keep the fog from becoming too widespread. Forecast models maintain the ridge over central California through early next week. A warm air inversion is developing above the valley floor, however high clouds are expected to continue to overrun the high which will keep the fog at bay. We are still looking at a major weather pattern change beginning Tuesday. The high will begin to break down, allowing a mammoth trough of low pressure to extend from southern Alaska to southern California. Some models are showing an atmospheric river of air developing from west to east across southern California. This could potentially result in very heavy precipitation along the Sierra Nevada and substantial amounts of precipitation for the valley floor. models show a low pressure system remaining just off the southern California coast from Thursday of next week to Monday of the following week for occasional periods of precipitation,
Forecast: Areas of night and morning fog and low clouds. Otherwise, it will be partly cloudy through Monday night. mostly cloudy Tuesday. Increasing cloudiness Tuesday night. rain becoming likely at times Tuesday through Friday.
Short Term:
| Madera 63/47/66/44/69 | Reedley 64/46/66/44/70 | Dinuba 63/45/65/44/68 |
| Porterville 64/44/66/45 /68 | Lindsay 63/44/65/43/69 | Delano 64/45/66/45/70 |
| Bakersfield 64/46/67/48/70 | Taft 59/48/62/49/67 | Arvin 65/46/66/46/71 |
| Lamont 65/45/66/46/68 | Pixley 63/43/66/44/69 | Tulare 62/44/65/46/68 |
| Woodlake 62/44/66/45/69 | Hanford 63/45/67/45/69 | Orosi 62/44/66/45/68 |
Seven Day Forecast
| Monday Am fog/partly cloudy 44/73 | Tuesday Increasing clouds 47/73 | Wednesday Rain likely 48/72 | Thursday Rain likely 45/63 | Friday Showers likely 41/56 |
Two Week Forecast: February 1 through February : This model has done a 180 regarding temperatures during this period. Models now show a cold trough of low pressure engulfing much of the west. Therefore, expect below average temperatures for a change with an excellent chance of rain.
Winds: Winds will be generally at or less than 6 mph with periods of near calm conditions through Monday.
Rain Dry weather will continue through Wednesday. A potentially very wet pattern will begin Wednesday of next week. models vary a great deal on how all of this will play out. A couple of models are showing the formation of a atmospheric river of air into the southern half of California next Wednesday and Thursday. Most models place a deep low just off the northern California coast next weekend and into the following week. The colder sector of the storm will arrive next weekend for a continuation of showers and possible thunderstorms. By the time we get to February 2 through the 10 we will have recorded substantial amounts of precipitation.
Frost: Expect above freezing temperatures for at least the next 7 days.
Mid afternoon dew points: Low to mid 30s. Kern: Upper 20s to the lower 30s.
ET for the past seven days: Stratford, .22, Parlier, .27, Arvin .25, Delano .23.
Soil temperatures: Stratford 55, Parlier 55, Arvin 59, Delano 54
Average Temperatures: 57/38, Record Temperatures: 72/24
Heating Degree Days Season. 1110 -380 varies widely from location to location. courtesy of the NWS
Precipitation: Seasonal total for Fresno .2.79, Monthly 1.90
Precipitation for Bakersfield: Season: 2.61, Monthly: .1.65
Average Temperature this Month 49.1 +2.5 taken at NWS Hanford.
Water year season is from October 1st through September 30.
Chilling Hours November 1st through February 28: Parlier, 646 Arvin, 576 Belridge, 562 Shafter, 622 Stratford, 618 Delano 642. Courtesy UC Davis
Sunrise, 7:05. Sunset, 5:19 hours of daylight, 10:11
NA=Not available
Yesterday’s Weather:
MCE : Merced AP 153 : 63 / 42 / 0.00 /
MAE : Madera AP 253 : 65 / 42 / 0.00 /
FAT : Fresno AP 333 : 64 / 44 / 0.00 /
HJO : Hanford AP 242 : 64 / 42 / 0.00 /
NLC : Lemoore NAS 234 : 64 / 40 / 0.00 /
BFL : Bakersfield AP 496 : 61 / 45 / 0.00 /
VIS : Visalia AP 292 : 63 / 41 / 0.00 /
PTV : Porterville AP 442 : 62 / 43 / 0.02 /
Rainfall:
STOCKTON 0.00 7.15 108 15.47 233 6.65 13.45
MODESTO 0.00 8.00 135 13.42 227 5.92 12.27
MERCED 0.00 6.43 117 12.85 234 5.49 11.80
MADERA 0.00 4.09 84 4.59 95 4.85 10.79
FRESNO 0.00 2.79 56 9.20 184 4.99 10.99
HANFORD 0.00 2.92 78 6.80 181 3.75 8.13
BAKERSFIELD 0.00 2.61 91 3.99 140 2.86 6.36
BISHOP 0.00 0.69 30 8.57 374 2.29 4.84
DEATH VALLEY NP 0.00 0.82 108 0.39 51 0.76 2.20
SALINAS 0.04 4.15 68 8.90 146 6.09 12.58
PASO ROBLES T 9.02 160 12.75 226 5.65 12.15
SANTA MARIA 0.00 4.83 81 13.33 224 5.95 13.32