Author: Trudy Hibler

November 19, 2017 Summary:   Skies generally cleared overnight, allowing strong radiational cooling to occur.  Most frost stations were in the mid 30s to the lower 40s this morning and the usual fog prone locations lived up to their reputation as places like Lemoore, Hanford, Tulare, and Merced were each reporting a quarter mile visibility or…

November 18, 2017 Summary:   Skies have cleared over central California.  The lone exception is portions of Kern County where low clouds are still banking up against the north facing slopes of the Tehachapi Mountains.  These clouds will slowly dissipate as the surface flow briefly becomes off shore.  Temperatures this morning are generally in the upper…

November 17, 2017 Summary: Temperatures are close to 20 degrees cooler in Kern County than they were 24 hours ago.  Even further north, readings are a good 7 to 10 degrees off of yesterday’s readings.  A cooler air mass has now taken over behind a cold front which moved through during the predawn hours.  Temperatures…

November 17, 2017 Summary:   The atmospheric river of air finally moved southward overnight and is currently draped over the Kern County mountains and is moving into southern California.  Doppler radar is still showing pockets of showers, mainly on the east side of the valley from Fresno County southward, but as the main energy feed continues…

November 16, 2017 Summary: Down sloping off the Kern County mountains with a southeast flow up the valley has warmed temperatures well into the 70s this afternoon with some locations in Kern County pushing 80.  The air mass ahead of a frontal system and a very moist flow across north/central California this afternoon remains in…

November 16, 2017 Summary:  We apologize if you tried to reach us yesterday and were unable to.  We were part of the outage problem with ATT.  Service is once again operational. https://9to5mac.com/2017/11/15/att-outage-fix-iphone-calls/   A strong low remains parked off the coast of the Pacific Northwest this morning.  Underneath this low is a batch of subtropical…

November 15, 2017 Summary: A very moist feed of mid Pacific air better known in recent history as an atmospheric river of air continues to move into northern California this afternoon.  In the meantime, in central California moisture is becoming more abundant and lift over the Sierra Nevada is already generating precipitation as far south…

November 15, 2017 Summary:  A year ago, we heard the term “atmospheric river of air” which resulted in heavy precipitation for northern and central California.  The first AR of the season is now underway in northern California as a wide swath of mid Pacific air is feeding underneath a low off the coast of the…

November 14, 2017 Summary: There are a few pockets of lower clouds remaining this afternoon, mainly over Kings and Tulare Counties and eastern Kings County.  Skies will be mostly clear to occasionally partly cloudy tonight, so pockets of fog will no doubt develop along with some possible areas of low clouds.  Areas that clear will…

November 14, 2017 Summary:  A weak disturbance moved inland to our north during the predawn hours with some sprinkles over Merced and Mariposa Counties, but no precipitation will occur further south.  There are areas of low clouds, especially in the south valley, which will dissipate as the day wears on.   Quite an interesting weather…