Author: Trudy Hibler

March 6, 2024 Summary  A weak upper level low is situated just to the west of Santa Maria this morning. Doppler radar shows light showers rotating around the center. A few showers are showing up  on doppler radar to just south of Monterey. These showers are rotating from; south to north and are not making…

March 5, 2024 Summary  A weak low pressure system is approaching the California coast. This feature will move southward parallel to the coast today through Thursday. As it moves southward to our west, light showers may spread far enough inland to give a chance of showers. The best chance of showers will be along the…

March 3, 2024 Summary:  A weak zone of upper level high pressure now covers the eastern Pacific Ocean off the California coast and extends inland over California and into the Great Basin. The storm that resulted in all the wild weather yesterday has moved into the northern Rockies and continues to pull away from central…

March 4, 2024 Summary  Mostly cloudy skies cover most of Tulare and kern Counties this morning. This is due to a northwesterly flow aloft being lifted by the Kern County mountains and the southern Sierra Nevada forming upslope clouds which have a tendency to regenerate over the same area. North of Tulare County, skies are…

March 3, 2024 Summary The following are rainfall totals for the entire storm as of 4:00am: Bakersfield .14, Shafter .15, Porterville .53, Delano .32, Exeter 1.10, Tulare .54, Visalia .48, Hanford .38, Lemoore .31, Dinuba .59, Reedley .95, Fresno .85, Madera .43, Merced .21. In the mountains, here are some of the heavier rainfall totals:…

March 2, 2024 Summary:  The weather has been extremely active over the valley so far today. A few thunderstorms have broken out over the valley floor. one cell was near Madera and it spawned a short lived tornado which was apparently strong enough to snap off trees and power lines. As of noon, there were…

March 1, 2024 Summary A very intense winter storm is centered off the coast of the Pacific Northwest with the bottom flank of this low sagging into central California. Epic amounts of snow is falling over the northern and central Sierra Nevada. Snowfall rates of 3-5 inches per hour are occurring in some areas. At…

March 1, 2024 Summary:  Central California is on the far southern limit of a massive low pressure system still centered in the Gulf of Alaska. Numerous secondary pieces of energy are rotating southeastward behind a cold front which is draped across central California. The most active portion of this storm is just off the northern…

March 1, 2024 Summary  What some are describing as “the perfect storm” for the Sierra Nevada continues to unfold this morning. The parent low of this very cold system remains in the Gulf of Alaska this morning. satellite imagery depicts several secondary low pressure systems rotating around the main low and moving into Oregon and…

February 29, 2024 Summary  An intensifying low pressure system in the Gulf of Alaska is digging a trough south /southeast  to off the coast of the Pacific Northwest and northern California. Currently, a strong cold front is in western Oregon and northwest California then southwest out over the ocean. Doppler radar is showing precipitation spreading…