Author: Trudy Hibler

  December 4, 2022 It was another very active night and the activity continues this morning as low pressure off the California/Oregon border continues to spread showers into central California from time to time. We are on the back side of this storm. Models show it finally opening up into a low pressure wave which…

December 3, 2022 The following are storm totals as of roughly 11:00 am: Fresno 1,23, Bakersfield .16, Delano .45, Belridge .68, Porterville .58, Kettleman Hills .69, Reedley 1.03, Madera .67, Merced .69, Firebaugh .42, Visalia .67, Hanford .79, Lemoore .84, and Coalinga 1.14.   The band of subtropical moisture, moved on shore resulting in widespread…

December 3, 2022 For the past several hours, an impressive field of moisture has been moving from southwest to northeast across most of the southern and central San Joaquin Valley. This moisture is flanked underneath a large low pressure system off the Oregon/northern California coast and will continue to feed precipitation into central California through…

December 2, 2022 The southern half of the valley is blanketed with a low overcast as of midday. The base of the overcast at Bakersfield, Porterville, and Visalia was 1,500 feet while at Lemoore the base is 1,900 feet. We remain in a lull between two major storms, the first of which has moved on.…

December 2, 2022 Light rain is still occurring in a few areas of southeast Tulare County and over the valley portion of Kern County. The rain has temporarily ended over the rest of the region. Storm totals are as follows: Bakersfield .05, Mettler .14, Belridge .29, Twisselman .29, Delano .21, Kettleman .22, Huron .15, Reedley…

December 1, 2022 As of the time of this writing, it was raining steadily north of roughly a Hanford/Tulare line. Heavy amounts of rain and snow are falling from the Tule River northward to Lake Tahoe. A cold front extends from roughly Marysville southwestward through San Jose and from there out to sea. A strong…

December 1, 2022 As of the time of this writing, rain had spread over all of northern California. Light showers were moving on shore along the central coast with light showers moving into the central part of the central valley. Satellite imagery shows large swaths of tropical moisture moving in from roughly the north bay…

November 30, 2022 Satellite imagery over the eastern Pacific Ocean is quite telling. A plume of moisture northeast of the Hawaiian Islands is rapidly moving northeastward and will arrive Thursday. All this is flanked underneath a large low pressure system which at this hour is just off Vancouver Island. Rain is beginning to spread over…

November 29, 2022 Temperatures are anywhere from 7 to 10 degrees cooler than 24 hours ago with most locations reporting readings in the mid 50s. Dew points, however, are roughly the same and range in the 30s. The air mass now in place in the valley is colder and, with little in the way of…

November 29, 2022 Temperatures are anywhere from 7 to 10 degrees cooler than 24 hours ago with most locations reporting readings in the mid 50s. Dew points, however, are roughly the same and range in the 30s. The air mass now in place in the valley is colder and, with little in the way of…