Author: Trudy Hibler

January 4, 2024 Summary: the widespread fog and low clouds that formed overnight and this morning are still with us this afternoon. The base of the overcast ranges from 800 feet at Porterville to 3,200 feet at Bakersfield. Satellite imagery shows drier air trying to work its way down the follow in Merced County, however…

January 4, 2024 Summary:  There is a potpourri of fog and/or low overcast throughout the valley at this hour. Merced and Visalia have reduced visibilities while Bakersfield, Fresno, and Porterville are each reporting a low overcast with a base at 200 feet at Fresno, 1,400 feet at Bakersfield and up to 4,200 feet at Porterville.…

January 3, 2024 Summary: Only isolated showers through the mountains at this hour. The latest trough of low pressure has now moved into Nevada and Arizona. Weak upper level high pressure will quickly build in from the west tonight and Thursday. Assuming winds die off and skies become mostly clear by late tonight, areas of…

January 3, 2024 Summary:  A Pacific cold front moved down the valley in the early morning hours. Rainfall totals so far are pretty decent in some areas. The following are storm totals up until 4:30 this morning. Mettler .12, Belridge .04, Bakersfield .13, Delano .04, Porterville .39, Exeter .50, Visalia .37, Hanford .34, Lemoore .09,…

precipitation has spread as far as the north bay counties along the coast and the Sacramento Valley inland. This is in advance of a pacific cold front which is only about 150 miles off the northern California coast. The front will push southeastward through the valley late tonight and Wednesday morning. showers will move into…

January 2, 2024 Summary: A cold low is located off the California/southern Oregon coast this morning and will dig rapidly into central California later tonight and Wednesday. Quantitative precipitation estimates have upped the ante this morning. latest estimates are anywhere from a quarter to a half inch north of Kern County with perhaps a tenth…

January 1, 2024 Summary: fog is fairly widespread from Fresno to Merced County. Areas of fog have developed over Kings, Tulare, and Kern counties over the past few hours. The fog will lift into a low overcast by late morning or early afternoon, clearing in most areas by mid to late afternoon. There is also…

December 31, 2023                                                                    Summary:In case you thought it was an unusually warm December, it was. Hanford, for example, through yesterday, ranged 6.2 degrees above average for the month so far. At this point, we haven’t had any episodes of polar air, although that may be changing later in January, which is discussed in the frost…

December 30, 2023 Summary: interestingly enough, heaviest precipitation amounts were in western Fresno and Kings Counties. Rainfall amounts as of midday were Bakersfield .17, Mettler .23, buttonwillow and Delano were each .17, Porterville .25, Visalia .25, Exeter .29, Hanford .27, Lemoore .61, Five  Points .71, Fresno .17, Fresno .27, Madera .44, and Merced .55. Doppler…

December 30, 2023                                                                    Summary: Precipitation is widespread throughout the valley at this hour. Already, better than a half inch of rain has been recorded at Merced and Lemoore with Madera reporting more than a third of an inch. Other locations range from just a few hundredths to around a tenth. Most of the rain from…