Author: John Hibler

February 22, 2018 Summary:  Clouds are rapidly increasing over the San Joaquin Valley this afternoon, mainly from Fresno County northward.  Doppler radar is indicating light showers as far south as Monterey along the coast and snow showers along the Sierra Nevada down to roughly Kings Canyon.  There are light showers showing up over the Sacramento…

February 22, 2018 Summary: Yet another morning with widespread mid to upper 20s.  some of the more fortunate locations only bottomed out at 30 or so as of 6:00am.  We again look to our north for incoming weather.  Over the Pacific Northwest we find a very cold incoming low.  Radar over Washington and Oregon is…

February 21, 2018 Frost Update: There is a wide variety of temperatures out there this evening, ranging from the upper 20s to the upper 30s.  this leads me to believe that there is some mixing going on out there.  As of 9:45, some of the colder examples are: Sanger 31, Navalencia 31, Fowler 29, Stone…

February 21, 2018 Summary:  The first piece of weather information that really stuck out in preparing this report was dew points.  They are generally in the upper teens to the lower twenties.  We’ll discuss this in the frost discussion.  The freezing level over Vandenberg taken earlier this morning was 4,400 feet and 3,500 feet up…

February 21, 2018 Summary: In my nearly 30 years as a meteorologist, this is by far the worse freeze I’ve seen at this time of year.  I talked with one grower earlier this morning and his operation has been devastated.  No doubt many of you have also suffered great losses.  Sadly, this isn’t over yet…

February 20, 2018 Frost Update: With cloud cover moving in, we feel a frost update is unnecessary.  Temperatures should be several degrees over what they were last night.   Next report: Approximately 10:00am Wednesday morning

February 20, 2018 Summary:  The coldest locations in the valley this morning fell to 21 degrees, this was at three separate locations with most locations huddled in the mid 20s.  tonight’s forecast is a bit more complex than I’d like.  A dry low pressure system is currently centered near Crescent City and will move southward…

February 20, 2018 Summary: Widespread mid to upper 20s were prevalent through all of the ag stations as of 6:30 this morning.  There were also some low 20s which will be discussed below in the frost section, but in some cases, once you get away from the central and west side of the valley, some…

February 19, 2018 Frost Update: it is pretty ugly out there in some areas tonight.  A few locations have already dropped to 28 degrees as early as 9:00pm.  The following are current temperature generally recorded between 9:45 and 10:00pm.  Madera 28, Sanger 27, Fowler 25, Orange Cove 29, Reedley 29, Orosi 29, Ivanhoe 27, Lindcove…

Summary:  This is the night we’ve been pointing to for the past week or so.  Strong upper level high pressure covers the off shore waters and ridges northward into Alaska while an Arctic trough of low pressure covers the interior western United States.  We remain sandwiched between these two features.  The combination of features has…