Author: Trudy Hibler

November 8, 2022 A solid area of rain extends from southwest to northeast and covers most of northern and central California. Another area of rain is moving on shore through Los Angeles and Orange Counties with heavy precipitation. Another area of heavy rain extends from the Sacramento Valley south/southwest to roughly Monterey and then out…

November 7, 2022 A cold front is inching its way down the valley this afternoon. It has been raining steadily from Kings County and northern Tulare County north with light showers south of that line. Lemoore has picked up .21. Fresno .32. del Rey .32, Kettleman Hills .15. Heavy amounts of precipitation have been occurring…

November 7, 2022 As of the time of this writing, a cold front was draped from northeast to southwest. Rain ahead of the front had advanced as far south as Kings and Tulare Counties. Precipitation will move into Kern County shortly, however a rain shadow has developed along the west side and in Kern County,…

November 6, 2022 The first phase of the upcoming storm has spread precipitation over the Pacific Northwest and northwest California. The main area of low pressure is just northwest of Washington state. Rain will spread over the northern half of the valley Sunday night and early Monday, probably nearing Fresno County by about 8:00am Monday,…

November 6, 2022 A magnificent storm is off the southern British Columbia coast this morning and is moving southward where it will take a position just off the Washington coast Monday. the jet stream is rapidly wrapping around the southern flank of this storm and will move into northern California Monday. by Monday night, a…

November 5, 2022 I’m watching with great interest an atmospheric river of air currently moving from west to east across southern Oregon and the northernmost counties of California. A powerful low will slowly drop southward into the Pacific Northwest then will carve out a trough of low pressure which will eventually sink all the way…

November 5, 2022 This upcoming storm system is more of a big event than it is a storm. This could turn out to be one of the biggest storms of the rainfall season.  For today and tonight, a flat zone of high pressure over central and southern California will keep us dry with pleasant afternoon…

November 4, 2022 The air, both at the surface and aloft, has warmed a great deal today. Midday temperatures are generally in the mid to upper 50s, which is about 4 to 5 degrees warmer than 24 hours ago. The balloon sounding indicates the air aloft is much warmer with the freezing level above Vandenburg…

November 4, 2022 In the short term, we will just observe variable amounts of cloud cover from time to time from a storm system moving through the Pacific Northwest. A strong westerly flow is currently steering all the action north of a California/Oregon border. There are changes afoot out there, however. A powerful Pacific storm…

November 3, 2022 A northwest flow both at the surface and aloft continues to generate the usual upslope clouds banked up against the north facing slopes of the Tehachapi Mountains and the west facing slopes of the southern Sierra Nevada. As of midday, Bakersfield was reporting a broken deck of clouds at 5,500 feet and…